“The entire lead up to this debate was talking about whether Donald Trump is going to show up for the next debate“.
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Due to the so-called “Trump factor”, Thursday’s debate was still the second-lowest rated GOP debate thus far in the cycle, despite the strong numbers. So his fellow presidential candidates lost no time in taking advantage of the chance to step out of the front-runner’s shadow.
Google data, however, gave Fox the upper-hand: Search interest for “debate live stream” was 170% higher than searches for “Trump live stream” on Thursday night. “He was a little teddy bear to me”, joked former Florida governor, Jeb Bush.
But a Fox News spokesperson told INSIDE EDITION on Friday that Kelly had not called Trump Voldemort.
The Fox News debate moderator, who engaged in a back-and-forth with Trump over Twitter and other outlets, opened the debate by calling Trump “the elephant not in the room”.
An NBC/WSJ/Marist poll released on Thursday showed an 11-point shift in Cruz’s support from three weeks ago, moving Donald Trump from a 4-point deficit to a 7-point edge over Cruz. “Ted Cruz is an anchor baby in Canada”, Trump said today at his event in Nashua, N.H., according to the Dallas Morning News.
As for his own rally, which Team Trump dubbed “the Special Event to Benefit Veterans Organizations”, the billionaire businessman repeatedly reminded the crowd that the event had been put together in less than 24 hours after his on-again, off-again feud with Fox boiled over in days before the debate. But you have to stick up for your rights.
“I want to thank everyone here for showing the men and women of Iowa the respect to show up and make the case to the people of this state and the people of the country why each of us believe we would make the best commander in chief”, he said. “We have a great grassroots organization and working very hard to get people out to the caucuses Monday night”.
“If you guys ask one more mean question, I may have to leave the stage”, Cruz said.
“I had predicted in some of the interviews before the debate that all guns would be pointed at Ted Cruz”, he told CNN on Friday.
“So he got beaten up pretty badly last night”.
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CBS reported that Mr Cruz later made a pitch to Mr Trump’s supporters, saying that he is still “glad Donald is running and glad he has produced enormous enthusiasm”.
