Trump’s rivals criticize comment about female moderator
One of the viewers Trump retweeted overnight wondered what Kelly’s “hidden agenda” might have been. How do you like your Trump this morning?
“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes”, he told CNN’s Don Lemon on Friday night. “I’m not running for social media critic of somebody else who’s running for president”, the former Arkansas governor said. Instead, Fox has worked very, very hard to promote Trump, and the fact that he was standing at center stage last night due to his soaring poll numbers was certainly aided by the network.
Women at the conference were divided on Trump’s disinvitation.
Other Republican candidates, like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, have forcefully criticized Trump over his comments about Kelly.
“I want to be treated fairly”, Trump said.
Erickson wasn’t the only conservative bashing Trump. Erickson said Trump crossed a line by insinuating that a female news anchor’s direct questions were connected with her menstrual period. When you insult a parent, you don’t just hurt them. Every presidential election since 1964 has been carried by women.
Another pitch-perfect question from Fox came courtesy of Kelly who pressed Trump about his evolution from Democrat to Republican. “You ungrateful dog!” he tweeted in 2013 at a rapper who wrote a song titled “Donald Trump“.
More broadly, the television news world is buzzing about whether Fox News has turned against Donald Trump.
“(The comments) were just totally reprehensible”, Susan Wasielewski said. But Kasich eloquently defended expanding Medicaid in the state, to keep the mentally ill and drug-addicted out of prison and the working poor out of the emergency room, simultaneously treating people decently and saving money. “I think Erick Erickson did the correct thing to disinvite him“. She said the question was fair.
Trump has also said the same of men. “They are killers. They are phenomenal”, Trump said on ABC’s “This Week”. A real case of “We Report, You Decide”.
Cruz, a pastor’s son who honed his oratory skills at Princeton University, worked the audience with a confidence and ease that eluded most of his competitors.
“I’ve had such an unbelievable relationship with women in business”.
“I think it’s probably more pathetic to interpret a reporters’ tough question as the product of hormones”, he said.
“Mr. Trump: There. Is. There. Is. No. Excuse”. “I stand with @MegynKelly”.
‘According to TIME, Newsmax, Drudge Report, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Hill and many others, Mr Trump won the debate. (Ouch.) Sen. Rand Paul said Trump “buys and sells politicians”, and Trump responded that it was true that when he wanted something from politicians he contributed to, they were there for him. Another candidate, Senator Lindsey Graham, applauded Erickson for revoking Trump’s invitation and said, “Enough already with Mr. Trump”. I could have done with one fewer reference to his mailman father. “I don’t think we’re going to solve the problems in this country by obsessing over the politics of personality”.
I like that America, where people file $500 million lawsuits over beauty pageants’ Spanish-language broadcasts. “It just was wrong”. The popular blogger phoned Donald Trump’s campaign manager to nix his invite not long after the attack on Megyn Kelly.
He pointed out that Erick Erickson had had to retract or apologize for some over-the-top statements of his own in the past. There’s a reason we don’t allow foreign nationals to donate to U.S. political campaigns.
Trump’s campaign manager said he never received that message. His next public appearance will be in Michigan on Tuesday.
It nearly goes without saying that Fox’s tough questioning of Trump made for good TV, which showed in the ratings.
Hillary Clinton, now the Democratic presidential frontrunner, is scheduled to meet with supporters at Exeter Town Hall in New Hampshire tomorrow afternoon, followed by a campaign organizing event later at the McIntyre Ski resort in Manchester.