Trump up by 7 points in Iowa; dominant in NH, SC
“Megyn Kelly’s really biased against me”, Trump said in an Instagram video posted Tuesday.
Cruz renewed the invitation to debate, saying they could meet Saturday in Sioux City, Iowa.
“She should be more civil”, said Gary Kellogg (76) of Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly, whom Trump has clashed with repeatedly since he accused of her unfair treatment in the first debate in August.
Challenge The senator challenged Trump to a one-on-one debate any time up to the Iowa caucus.
“It’s called an eye for an eye”, Trump said.
Marshalltown, Iowa (CNN)The race for first place in Iowa’s Republican caucuses appears to be shaping into a two-man sprint between businessman Donald Trump and Texas Sen.
“Obviously we would love all of the candidates to participate, but each campaign ultimately makes their own decision what’s in their best interest”, the spokesman, Sean Spicer said, according to a statement.
“I don’t like being taken advantage of…I’m not going to let our country be taken advantage of”, Trump said.
After the first Republican primary debate, where she’d challenged Trump on his history of sexist behavior, he responded with what was widely taken to be a vulgar implication that Kelly was menstruating at the time. To find out, watch the Fox News free live streaming video of the debate, which will be accessible through the link in the final paragraph of this article.
Earlier Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski gave ABC News an unlikely scenario: “If he’s the last man standing and it comes down to a two-person race Donald Trump will be happy to debate him”. “Why do I have to make Fox rich?” The candidates on the debate stage shouldn’t be worrying about what the moderators are going to say.
So Fox News and voters across America will in all likelihood have to do without Trump for debate No. 7.
The property tycoon rekindled his on-again, off-again months-long dispute with Fox News, the host of the seventh debate, after executives issued a press release mocking Trump’s decision to canvass his Twitter followers on whether he should participate.
Republicans, he said, would have tuned in to hear what the candidate has to say.
Trump later tweeted a statement officially withdrawing from Thursday’s debate, and will instead be hosting a simultaneous event for the Veterans and Wounded Warriors group.
Senator Marco Rubio is a distant third, at eight percent, followed by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at six percent and former Florida governor Jeb Bush at five percent.
Noah then recapped Trump’s ongoing attacks on Kelly, including his Twitter boast that he couldn’t call her a “bimbo” because it wasn’t “politically correct”.
“I think he’s making a mistake but he’ll probably do well because of it. I mean he just does”, Marlene Sarby told KCCI. It made fun of him, made fun of the frontrunning candidate for the Republican nomination for president.
During Tuesday’s press conference, Trump labelled Kelly’s reference to his use of the terms “dogs”, “fat pigs”, “slobs” and “disgusting animals” in reference to women as “inappropriate” for a debate setting.