Trump dumped from US event over ‘inappropriate’ comments

Those statements followed inflammatory comments Trump made about Fox News reporter Megyn Kelly, who was one of several moderators to question him at the first GOP primary debate the evening before.

Erick Erickson, the organizer of the event and a major conservative activist tweeted late on Friday night, “I have rescinded my invitation to Mr. Trump”.

Front-runner Trump told morning talk shows he couldn’t recall insulting women in the past, rejecting the premise of a question posed by Fox News’ Megyn Kelly during Thursday’s night’s debate. “Blood coming out of her wherever”, he told Don Lemon. Erickson told the Washington Post, “Look, I really wanted Donald Trump to be here”.

“Carly Fiorina was the only one who didn’t sound like she had time-traveled from the Reagan administration”, says Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, director of social policy and politics at Third Way, a left of center think tank.

But I also think that while Mr. Trump resonates with a lot of people with his bluntness, including me to a degree, there are just real lines of decency a person running for President should not trust.

A Trump campaign spokesperson responded: “This is just another example of weakness through being politically correct”.

Mr. Trump touted “hundreds of thousands” of people on Twitter who blasted Ms. Kelly during the debate.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the media in the spin room after the first Republican presidential debate at the Quicken Loans Arena Thursday, August 6, 2015, in Cleveland.

Other presidential candidates – Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee – are scheduled to address the Red State Gathering on Saturday.

Taken collectively, the candidates handled Trump the right way: raising questions about him (Fiorina), expressing respect for voters who have been interested in him (Kasich), and generally letting him sink of his own weight (the rest of them).

But many of Trump’s supporters are now lashing out against Fox – some are even calling for a boycott – and accusing the network of biased coverage. Trump was trying to move beyond the question [in the CNN interview] by getting away from talking about her eyes or whatever.’ I said, ‘That wasn’t how it was on the tape.’ I didn’t accept that he misspoke, based on the context of the video. “I might not, to be honest”, he said.

“I have invited Megyn Kelly to attend in Donald Trump’s place tomorrow night”. Cohen described this as an “insidious” attempt to spread the perception Trump lost the debate.

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

In the hour after the debate, Fox News featured Luntz’s focus group, as well as commentary from hosts and guests who described Trump’s performance as a “collapse”.

She also called Hillary Clinton untrustworthy and unaccomplished.

“They live by the creed if we can’t beat ’em, we cheat ’em”, she said.

When Kelly said Trump’s comments had gone beyond O’Donnell and asked about his use of such insults on Twitter, Trump replied that he didn’t “have time for total political correctness”. “Do we want to win?”