GOP candidates ride debate momentum to RedState activisits

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina ripped Donald Trump’s incendiary remarks about Megyn Kelly on Friday night.

Last night, Kelly challenged the real estate mogul on his abortion views, which she said he’s flip-flopped on.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich said that Trump’s immigration comments have clearly touched a nerve and it is “a mistake” for people to ignore him. This related to the debate, which because of Mr. Trump had 24 million viewers – the biggest in cable news history.

Trump first claimed Mexico is “sending people that have lots of problems” to the US at his presidential announcement in June.

While some conservatives have voiced their disapproval of Trump’s disinvitation, Erickson made the right call. “It just was wrong”, he wrote.

“This is just another example of weakness through being politically correct”, his campaign said in a statement.

A former corporate litigator at Jones Day for nearly a decade, Kelly joined Fox News in 2004 where she’s covered multiple elections and political events as well as breaking news. Earlier, seven of the 17 Republican presidential candidates appeared at Fox News’s second-tier debate.

But Perry campaigned as if he was one of the party’s top-tier candidates, declaring that his 14 years as governor in Texas prove he’s worthy of a promotion.

“As much as I do personally like Donald Trump, his comment about Megyn Kelly on CNN is a bridge too far for me“, said conservative pundit Erick Erickson, who is hosting the RedState activist event.

ERICKSON: I think that he confuses political correctness and common decency.

Huckabee, even in his frustration Saturday, said Trump has “tapped into an anger” among the electorate.

On ISIS: Bush stated that “knowing what we know now with faulty intelligence”, it was “a mistake” to go to Iraq, and he wouldn’t have gone in.

During the debate, which featured the 10 candidates leading in polls of the GOP primary, moderator Chris Wallace asked Trump to provide evidence backing up his accusation. “What do you think?” Bush asked. “How about dealing with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin?”

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. Trump said he’d only used the insults against television personality Rosie O’Donnell, with whom he’s been feuding for almost a decade. “Come on – give me a break”.

“Do we want to win?” The Trump campaign said he will now be doing another campaign stop at another location. “Worse yet, it is not something that brings people together”.

Trump believes he won the debate, and doesn’t think he could have done any better. But they are not yet sold on Donald Trump, the front-running outsider, either.

She also suggested that Trump’s reaction was a sign that he is too thin-skinned.

In the first of four interviews on the Sunday news shows, Trump stuck to his assertion that only “a deviant” would interpret his comment beyond a harmless barb, and dug in against Kelly and Erickson.

Trump denies that Clinton encouraged him to run.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, also speaking at the gathering, said “coarse language and degrading comments are for cowards”. I mean, I’m a sinner like everyone else – said some really dumb, stupid things in my life and had to apologize for them.

During the debate, Trump acknowledged making such comments – but only about O’Donnell.