The Huffington Post has declared Megyn Kelly the victor of Thursday night’s presidential debate with a front-page spread cheering her combative handling of the Republican candidates gathered in Des Moines, Iowa.
During Thursday night’s Republican primary debate, co-moderator Megyn Kelly referred to the absent Donald Trump as the “elephant in the room.” Behind-the-scenes, as revealed by Ted Cruz immediately after the debate, Kelly privately referred to Trump as “Voldemort,” the embodiment
Thursday immediately following Fox News Channel’s Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, IA, Megyn Kelly, the host of FNC’s “The Kelly File” interviewed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), one of the participants in the debate. During that interview, Cruz made a
Moderator Megyn Kelly kicked off the last GOP debate before Iowa by describing Donald Trump as “the elephant not in the room,” and then inviting criticism of the absent front-runner.
Donald Trump skipped last night’s Fox News debate in a fit of pique over the “very biased” Megyn Kelly. But since the shocking things he does and says always seem to work out for him, someone else used his pet issue of immigration to tie his top Republican rivals into knots. And that someone else was Megyn Kelly.
During Thursday night’s Republican primary debate, in order to attack and bloody both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, Fox News used selectively-edited video montages of both senators saying stuff. Video is the most powerful propaganda weapon ever conceived, and not
The Republican candidates sans Donald Trump held their final debate Thursday night before the Iowa caucuses. The elephant in the room was Trump’s absence: would it hurt him? Would it help him?
Thursday night’s Fox News debate–the last before the Iowa caucuses–had all of the same weaknesses of the first, without the theatrics around Trump to save the moderators from a weak approach focused on attacking the participants.
Fox News seemed to confirm Trump’s account, in a statement provided to CNN’s Dylan Byers.
Here’s my take on Donald Trump’s decision not to attend the Fox News debate and the subsequent storm it’s stirred up. Let’s imagine that this is a heavyweight title fight and that one of the judges is clearly biased against the main contender.
Senator Marco Rubio appeared on Fox News with Megyn Kelly last night, and was questioned about his pro-life stance on abortion.
Roger Ailes wanted to redirect Donald Trump’s ire from Megyn Kelly to Fox News Channel as a whole so that he could take some heat off his star anchor without removing her as moderator of this week’s Iowa Republican debate, writes Hadas Gold in Politico.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is raising new questions about Donald Trump’s leadership – after the billionaire decided to skip tonight’s Fox News debate.
Jeb Bush is mocking GOP rival Donald Trump for his decision to skip Thursday night’s debate in Iowa, and said he made a bet of $20 that the frontrunner will show up after all.
John McCain, the man who in 2008 put losing like a gentleman above doing what was necessary to keep then-Senator WrightAyersRezkoPleger out of the White House, appeared on CNN Wednesday with a fistful of red herrings designed to seek favor
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said that allowing someone to pick a debate moderator is “the destruction of free press as we know it” and that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is “using a veterans event as a way to further
Cruz has the organization, the data, and the must-win attitude to mount a comeback. Yet even if he does win, he has missed an opportunity to unite the party, beat the media and prepare for the general election.
Donald Trump’s decision not to participate in the Fox News debate has shined a spotlight on the advocacy efforts and undisclosed conflict of interests of the news network’s founder, Rupert Murdoch. These advocacy efforts may perhaps explain some of the motivations underlying the network’s treatment of the GOP frontrunner.
Conservative commentator and best-selling author Michelle Malkin slammed Fox News on Twitter for the network’s decision to allow someone who entered the country illegally to participate as a questioner in tomorrow night’s Republican presidential debate. Malkin tweeted: “FoxNews debate questioner Dulce Candy
Columnist and author Ann Coulter said that Donald Trump is “shaking up the way people look at Fox News as maybe not always our network” on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” on Wednesday. Coulter said she hopes Trump doesn’t show
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that he isn’t “Walking away” from Thursday’s debate and ” We’re going to go on forever with these debates. At some point you have got to start doing other things other than debating” on
James Poniewozik writes in the New York Times: “So Mr. Trump’s war on Fox News isn’t just a media spat. It’s part of a war for control against the power structure of the G.O.P. “
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld argued that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign made a “grotesque,” “Sopranos in khakis,” “threat” against FNC host Megyn Kelly and “if you don’t think this was a big deal, you do not belong in
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough reacted to Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s decision not to participate in Thursday’s Republican debate hosted by the Fox News Channel. Scarborough ripped Fox News for provoking Trump and said he wouldn’t
Those of us who obsessively observe the media never thought we would see a day like yesterday, a day when someone finally got the better of Fox News and Roger Ailes. The infallible network proved itself fallible with two of
Speaking on Good Morning America and Morning Joe this morning, Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski hinted that other candidates were thinking of dropping out of the upcoming Fox News debate after Trump decided to bail.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump says a statement put out by Fox News yesterday was “a disgrace to good broadcasting and journalism.”
Filmmaker Michael Moore told Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly “You asked a great question [to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump], by the way. The war on women. God bless you Megyn Kelly” on Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News
The announcement from Donald Trump’s campaign that the Republican frontrunner will “definitely not” partake in Thursday night’s Fox News debate has sent shock waves throughout the nation’s political scene.
DES MOINES, Iowa — Dr. Ben Carson, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate who will appear on the main stage of the Fox News Channel debate on Thursday here, told Breitbart News Tuesday evening he’s “not concerned” about whether moderators Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier, and Chris Wallace will be fair.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz reacted quickly to the news that Donald Trump had decided to skip the Fox News debate in Iowa on Thursday.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump said he “probably won’t be doing the debate” on Thursday night and called Fox News’s Megyn Kelly a “lightweight” and a “third rate reporter.” “Let Fox play its games,” the real estate mogul added. “I think
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is polling his supporters on Twitter, asking whether or not he should participate in the debate Thursday night on Fox News.
Left-wing filmmaker and serial Donald Trump-basher Michael Moore will appear with Megyn Kelly on Fox News’s “The Kelly File” Tuesday night. According to the Orlando Sentinel, “The filmmaker will have a chance to promote his latest work, ‘Where to Invade
Tuesday on ABC’s “The View,” while discussing Republican front-runner Donald Trump‘s back-and-forth with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and Trump’s talk about possibly skipping the Fox debate if Kelly is moderating, co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked, “You’re not scared of Megyn
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he “probably” would participate in Fox News’s GOP primary debate on Thursday, but he added that “nothing is 100 percent” because debate moderator Megyn Kelly is “very biased.” He added, “Maybe I know too much about her.”
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said of Fox News Channel host Megyn Kelly, “I might be the best thing that ever happened to her. Who ever even heard of her before the last debate?” in an interview aired on Monday’s
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump reportedly said that he spoke with Fox News’s Roger Ailes and that Megyn Kelly should “recuse herself” as a moderator for the upcoming GOP primary debate hosted by Fox News in Iowa on Thursday.
With just five days until Fox News airs the final GOP debate before the Iowa Caucuses, Donald Trump is reigniting his war with Megyn Kelly. “Based on @MegynKelly’s conflict of interest and bias she should not be allowed to be a moderator of the next debate,” Trump tweeted while campaigning in Iowa on Saturday.
UPDATE — Statement from a Fox News spokesperson: “Megyn Kelly has no conflict of interest. Donald Trump is just trying to build up the audience for Thursday’s debate, for which we thank him.” *** GOP frontrunner Donald Trump argues that Fox News’s
