“They twisted what the words were, because they’re trying to destroy him“, Howard said.
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“His is a campaign in crisis”.
Trump defended his comments as simply providing refreshing honesty.
Speaking at the Fox News Republican primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, host Megyn Kelly questioned whether it’s presidential for Trump to call women he dislikes “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals”. “Mr. Trump: There. Is”.
Fiorina added in a follow-up tweet: “I stand with @megynkelly”. Trump was Trump, essentially, and he did exactly what got him to the front-runner podium in the first place. “Being POTUS is tougher…” “Do we want to insult 53 percent of our voters?” the former Florida governor asked.
Saturday morning, Trump attempted to clarify the remark on Twitter. Just three weeks ago, the same almost-ritualized performance played out after Trump had dissed Sen. Trump had gone into the debate the clear favourite and emerged with his reputation intact despite his spat with Megyn Kelly.
This story has been corrected to show that Trump made his comments to ABC.
If anything, he seemed strengthened by the incident, to the surprise of many, including me.
Jack Staver, a business consultant from Woodstock, Georgia, said Trump’s rivals could benefit from emulating his style, even if it gets him into trouble. “Mr. Trump ought to apologize”. You could see their hesitation during the debate last Thursday. Trump has been going after Kelly like a piqued schoolboy from the time she called him out on the Fox debate.
The evening started with a question from moderator Chris Wallace. Chuck Schumer who recently announced he would oppose it. NBC’s Chuck Todd finally acknowledged on Tuesday that Donald Trump is rocketing up the polls because he is the most “21st century media savvy of all the candidates”.
“I expect Trump to lash out at Erick but Erick wins when he fights and has a huge microphone and speaks to a lot of conservatives across the country”.
While network figures have criticized Trump in the past, Fox’s shift during the debate to fully acknowledging Trump’s nasty side is notable.
“I’m not sure we need half a billion dollars for women’s health issues”, Bush said. Trump was the only candidate to not take that pledge.
While others were suggesting the GOP should ban him from the debate stage, I argued that “the GOP has to go through this process”, and that “the best way to handle someone like Donald Trump is to give him enough rope to hang himself“. “He is. He’s hitting a nerve”. Her tendency to do this every once in a while successfully distracts from her standard misinformation, and helps feed the exact narrative about Fox’s potential for credibility that they were desperate to encourage last night. They don’t think the government is working for them. John McCain’s experience as a POW – but his poll numbers have continued to rise, leaving attendees flummoxed about how the episode ends. Now, he’s got his solutions. “He needs credible defenders”, said Bruce Haynes, a South Carolina Republican strategist and the president of Purple Strategies. On Saturday, he told my Post colleague Philip Rucker that it is time for party leaders and candidates to recognize the threat Trump poses.
“I think we’ve crossed that Rubicon, where his behavior becomes about us, not just him”, Graham said.
Trump’s next step remains in question.
“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes”, he told CNN’s Don Lemon on Friday night. He views, however, do not represent critical mass with the field of candidates.
Before dawn, he had retweeted a post calling Kelly a “bimbo”. Bush said onstage, referring to women voters, to applause.
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