Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump escalated his Canada-themed jabs at Sen.
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Thursday marks a return to the main stage for Paul, who was booted to the undercard earlier this month and chose to skip the event altogether.
Trump had famously predicted FOX’s ratings for the night would be a disaster without him. A plethora of smaller outlets also televised and streamed Trump, but no further viewership data is available.
‘And everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly and Ben, you’re a bad surgeon.
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.
Jeb Bush, who has been increasingly argumentative with Mr Trump during the debates, joked that he wished Trump was there.
The fact is, and I said it, you know I have a very good relationship with Fox, but when somebody doesn’t treat you properly, you got to be tough, you got to be strong, you got to be, you can’t let them push you around.
“We always had such a loving relationship in these debates and in between, and the tweets”, he said.
“I kind of miss Donald Trump. I wish he was here”. “Everybody else was in witness protection program when I went after him”.
“Asked about the ‘elephant not in the room” by Fox News moderators, two rivals -Texas Senator Ted Cruz and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush – poked fun at the the tycoon. “Rand, please attack Ted”. Chris, please attack Ted. “I just hope he’s not the nominee”. But I will say this.
In 2011, Trump told Kelly that “you’ve done a great job by the way and I mean it”.
Rubio was asked the next question and began his answer saying, “First of all, don’t worry, I’m not leaving the stage no matter what you ask me”.
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Instead, Trump held his own rally in Iowa at the same time as the debate, which he promoted as a way to raise money for charity. Ted Cruz over his citizenship status on Friday, calling his fellow GOP presidential candidate an “anchor baby in Canada”.
