Megyn Kelly Referred to Donald Trump as ‘Voldemort,’ Ted Cruz Says

Because one thing Trump has helped do is to put Fox News itself on trial.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) attempted to dispense with Trump in the opening minutes of the debate, winning points from the audience by mocking the elephant in the room for being a no-show.

Capitalizing on the fact that Fox News was forced to run its GOP debate last night without frontrunner Donald Trump, Colbert hosted his own debate of sorts.

“We both want to win this”, Rubio said. And their presence on stage with Trump could go a long way toward negating the criticisms from Trump’s rivals like Ted Cruz, whose allies have claimed that Trump will be punished by Iowans on Monday for skipping the debate stage.

The poll suggests that Trump’s withering attacks on Cruz – over his Canadian birth, his opposition to federal ethanol mandates and his unreported loans from Goldman Sachs – have done a number on the senator’s image.

Trump announced a dedicated website, DonaldTrumpForVets.com, for his supporters to donate funds for military veterans.

Trump also knocked Cruz’s debate performance, saying that the Texan “got really pummeled” by the rest of the field. In refusing to appear on stage Thursday night, Trump was not only able to ensure he would enter the Iowa caucus from a position of strength, but also that his main opponent Cruz would experience his most hostile debate yet.

That inaugural match marked the start of the Republican’s beef with moderator Megyn Kelly: After the journalist asked him tough questions about the way he talks about women, he repeatedly bashed her in interviews and on social media, calling her a bimbo among other insults. The Times called Clinton one of the most “deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history”.

“Ted Cruz is an anchor baby in Canada”, Trump said, referring to Cruz’s birth in Calgary, Canada to a Cuban father and American mother. If your wife leaves you for another man, if you leave your wife because you don’t like her, I don’t care what it is. The Republican front-runner backed out of the debate amid an escalating feud with cable network. That’s when Trump walked.

Trump has accused Fox News, and especially debate moderator Megyn Kelly, of bias against him.

Julian Zelizer, a history professor at Princeton University, said if there was a victor Thursday, it was probably Trump.

Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier hit back at Trump in a statement Friday, knocking the NY billionaire’s past support for legal abortion and praiseworthy comments about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “And Ben, you’re a awful surgeon”, he said.

And he was the most-searchedcandidate on Google during the debate’s first half, according to Google Trends data. He needs more than just those fox who are anti-Fox news Republicans. Carson, who at one time was among the leaders in Iowa, has failed in recent months to follow the shift to an emphasis on national security and foreign conflicts.