Megachurch Pastor Perry Noble says that while he’s not endorsing Trump, he does feel the businessman successfully turned the tables on the Fox News network that hosted the Republican debate Thursday night in Iowa.
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Megyn Kelly confronted all candidates during the night.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump returned to attacks on Ted Cruz’s birthplace on Friday, suggesting that he’s not a USA citizen and calling him a Canadian “anchor baby” at a campaign event in New Hampshire just three days before the Iowa caucuses.
Cruz fought back by accusing Rubio of bending to the will of donors on immigration, but it was hardly a decisive victory.
“I don’t support amnesty”.
What’s remarkable is that Trump is leading despite fact that’s he’s a deeply polarizing figure among Republicans: Nearly half of likely caucusgoers (47 percent) view him unfavorably, while 50 percent view him favorably. But Trump’s willingness to take on Fox News – and tap into a deep well of far-right resentment against the network – seemed to give candidates like Cruz the go-ahead to confront the network as well. “This election is about people who are really hurting and we need a leader that will fix things and that has a proven record to do it”, said Jeb Bush, (R) presidential candidate. In August past year, she asked a furious Trump about some derogatory comments related to women that he had previously stated.
“They have 75 phones and definitely over 100-plus come through these doors a day”, Slobodien said.
“I didn’t want to be here, to be honest, I wanted to be about five minutes away”. Broadening his point, he said, “We have to stick up for ourselves as people and we have to stick up for our country if we’re being mistreated”.
The debate was the type of event Republicans would routinely have without the flamboyant Trump on stage, and it lacked the electricity that he brings to the party’s search for a nominee.
Colbert acting as moderator started the event by asking the GOP frontrunner about his thoughts on the chances of presidential rival Ted Cruz. The elephant not in the room was Donald Trump.
While speaking to Kelly on air after the debate, Cruz said: “Well, you know, you were joking just before we went on air that it was sort of like Voldemort, ‘He Who Must Not Be Named'”.
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For months, that spotlight has been on Trump, leaving his rivals angling to post a strong second or third place showing.
