“I’m going to do things for women that no other candidate will be able to do”.
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“I don’t have a lot of respect for Megyn Kelly, she’s a lightweight”, said Trump.
Rand Paul, who was quick to challenge Trump in the debate on Thursday night, hit out at him again on Sunday. “Blood coming out of her wherever”.
But Mr Trump seems to be aware, at least, that his tangling with Ms Kelly may not exactly be helping his campaign.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he leaves the stage with his son Eric Trump, left, and daughter, Ivanka Trump. right, after the first Republican presidential debate at the Quicken Loans Arena Thursday, August 6, 2015, in Cleveland.
Afterward, Trump lashed out at Kelly for her questions.
In response, conservative commentator Erick Erickson rescinded his prior invitation to Trump to speak at the RedState Gathering, instead inviting Ms. Kelly.
Erickson said in a Facebook statement that in a CNN interview Trump said of Kelly: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes”.
The real estate mogul and television personality, who remains ahead of his 16 rivals in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, appeared on Sunday news shows in the USA to rebutt the outrage triggered by his off-the-cuff talk.
Belittle Trump’s claim to be a truth-teller by arguing that self-promotion is the billionaire’s guiding philosophy. “As a party, we are better to risk losing without Donald Trump than trying to win with him”. “Do we want to insult 53 percent of our voters?” the former Florida governor asked.
Donald Trump has defended his relations with women, calling them “tremendous”, but stopped short of apologising for attacking a Fox News journalist. “The numbers are incredible”, Trump said on ABC’s “This Week”.
HERAK: Maybe on some other time you might want to get him down on that – a one-on-one – but in a national debate? “What Jeb Bush said last week I thought was totally out-of-order”. Stone denied being fired, saying he resigned over the direction of Trump’s campaign.
“When I’m attacked, I fight back”, Trump told host Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press”.
“I’ve made a decision here with Donald Trump, you know – if I comment on everything he says, I mean, my whole campaign will be consumed by it”, said U.S. Sen. “That’s all I’ll do all day”. “That has nothing to do with political correctness”, he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation“. Ted Cruz of Texas has sought to position himself to voters who have been drawn to Trump’s style.
Trump then said he will not apologize to Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. He called Erickson “a total loser” with “a history of supporting establishment losers in failed campaigns”. Trump was to have spoken at it.
Trump’s campaign responded: “This is just another example of weakness through being politically correct. It was a fair question”, she said.
“Women are tremendous…. I’ve had such an incredible relationship with women in business”, he told ABC.
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“Enough already with Mr. Trump”, said Graham, a senator from South Carolina.
