“When I said the Rosie O’Donnell thing, that got the biggest laugh, applause, et cetera of the evening”, he said during Friday’s interview with George Stephanopoulos.
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Afterward, Frank Luntz hosted a panel of Fox News viewers who gave Trump disapproving grades for his performance. “That is an absolutely monster number”, tweeted Fox media commentator Howard Kurtz.
The cable news network pulled in 7.9 million viewers in the key 25-54 demographic.
The first GOP presidential debate was fraught with tension, as expected.
The early rating for Thursday’s debate indicates that 16% of U.S. homes with televisions watched Trump, Jeb Bush and the 8 other candidates spar for two hours. Some 6.1 million people watched the preliminary debate, Nielsen said.
The debate night appears to have been a multi-platform smash.
But Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, speaking Friday on “New Day”, responded to Fiorina’s attacks on Hillary Clinton in the debate by slamming her record while at the helm of HP.
Ironically, he agreed with a Twitter follower who called Kelly a “bimbo”.
“You should be ashamed of yourself”, he writes.
Whether or not you agree with the assessment of the Taiwanese Animators that Donald Trump won Thursday’s Republican presidential debate in Cleveland, I think we can all agree that their video is quite amusing in a vaudvillian sort of way. Currently, that controversy has manifested in the form of the next great Donald Trump feud-namely, the bone Trump has to pick with Fox anchor Megyn Kelly, who directed a few questions at Trump that Trump says were unfair, and showed bad bias.
Donald Trump opened his mouth and now finds the door closed to him at a high-profile gathering of conservative activists.
Erick Erickson said Trump’s remark was “a bridge too far for me“.
While some believe that Kelly may be victor of the debate, it doesn’t matter what she, Fox News or Krauthammer thinks. Kelly asked about him having called women “fat pigs”, “dogs”, “slobs”, and “disgusting animals”.
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I’ve been challenged by so many people, and I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness.
