After all, she was the most searched candidate on Google during the early “happy hour” debate, according to The Hill.
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If the hope was to generate a buzz on social media, one Republican stood far above the rest in Thursday’s debate.
Twitter launched numbers displaying that Trump, who led in the polls going into the debate, garnered about 30 % of the mentions, with Carson behind him round 12 %. Bush, who ranked second in a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, placed seventh in Twitter mentions.
According to Facebook, which said it saw 7.5 million people making 20 million debate-related interactions, the most-discussed issues were immigration and race relations, followed by the economy.
“I thought their questions to me were much tougher than to other people, and I respect that, but I really enjoyed the evening”, said Trump. “What other people are doing doesn’t necessarily impact our strategy”, he said.
That number five position puts him smack in the middle of more politically experienced and voter approved candidates – U.S. senators Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, New Jersey governor Chris Christie-endorsed by Maryland Governor Hogan-and Ohio governor John Kasich narrowly made the cut. Christie was photographed with the president after superstorm Sandy hit his state in 2012.
And Donald Trump had to listen obediently, even meekly, as Megyn Kelly-the one woman on Fox News’s panel of three debate moderators-recited a squirm-inducing litany of his misogynistic remarks through time.
“You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals, ‘” said Kelly during the debate.
Democrats did not debate on Thursday night, but Hillary Clinton still snagged some media attention online.
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While presumptive Democratic 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton appeared in a selfie with reality star Kim Kardashian and her rapper husband Kanye West, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson knocked her as the “epitome of the secular progressive movement”. What we need to think about instead, you know, I was asked by an NPR reporter once, why don’t I talk about race that often.
