GOP debate’s ratings soar to record numbers on Fox News

“For the record, it was well beyond Rosie O’Donnell”.

Donald Trump won some applause in Cleveland, but Thursday night spelled the beginning of his inevitable decline.

The prediction has been made many times before, but his disinvitation from the RedState conference here in Atlanta shows that the grass-roots conservative movement may be joining the party establishment in turning against the real estate mogul.

“When it comes to the issue of gay marriage, I’m for traditional marriage, but you know, I’ve got friends that don’t practice that, and you know, God bless them”, Kasich said on “CBS This Morning“. “He was asked about his past, his failings, all of these things”, Robinson said. Republican strategist Liz Mair said the debate “has done Trump a tremendous disservice for exposing him for exactly what he is – a philosophically ungrounded, unappealing entertainer”.

Trump’s response focused on how people worry too much about political correctness and how if Kelly didn’t like it, he was “sorry”. “But when you’re talking about a Republican presidential nomination, when these people want to defeat Hillary Clinton, that’s not the language, that’s not the strategy, that’s just not what they want to hear”.

The remark triggered an angry exchange with Senator Rand Paul, who shouted across the stage that Trump was “already hedging his bets because he’s used to buying politicians”. I gave to a foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good.

After Trump and Bush, Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker and former Arkansas governor turned television host Mike Huckabee are among the few to have drawn much national attention previously.

No one hit a home run in the first GOP presidential candidate debate of the 2016 campaign, but no one got sent down to the minor leagues for a bad performance, according to a trio of Iowa Republicans who analyzed the debate Friday. What I say is what I say. “I saw this with Ross Perot and Trump has numerous similar characteristics”, he said.

“If I wasn’t in the event, they probably would have done two million, three million people max”, he said. It’s fun for his fans to watch Trump flout convention, but eventually they figure out that this man will betray anyone.

Carly Fiorina, in the night’s earlier debate, managed to bring up his past support of Democrats and liberal positions in a concise soundbite that somehow didn’t come across as overheated, as other attacks on Trump have.