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i ll support mr. trump, i definitely will. i think he s what this country finally needs to run this country. paula johnson, women for trump, thank you so much for joining me. i appreciate it. thank you for having me on. absolutely. joining me right now is the senior political writer for buzz feed news. nbc news correspondent katy tur, and once a contestant on the apprentice. as we talk about the debate last night which gathered around 24 million people around the tube this was appointment television last night for this debate. katy, let me start with you, though. the reaction people are having for meghan kelly questioning trump on misogynistic statements misogynistic behavior, you sat down with him for a very long interview, he was terse to you in a way that seemed demeaning at one point. ....
Questions were tough but fair. certainly in your debate even a lot of the moderators were asking tough questions of all the candidates basically many of the questions were sort of along the lines of do you even deserve to be here. well look i think what moderators are trying to do look i ve not moderated a debate but if i were in that position what i would want to do is put a little pressure on candidates because i think character is revealed when people are under pressure. and in the end what a campaign is designed to do i think, as crazy as this process is american voters get to see people over time and under pressure. and so in that debate i think the moderators were trying to put everyone under a little pressure to see how they would respond. trump s refusal to rule out a third-party run or support the eventual nominee, should republican voters think twice about supporting him because of that? and was that a fair question to start off the debate with? i think it was a fai ....
What happened is friends of mine years ago were going to have a child, and it was going to be aborted, and it wasn t aborted, and that child today is a total superstar, a great, great child. i am very very proud to say that i am pro-life. in a focus group on fox, after the debate some participants told republican pollster frank lunts they were less than impressed by trump s performance. i liked him when i came in here, because he wasn t the politician. but right now, he skirted around questions better than a life-long politician ever has. he was mean. he was angry. he had no specifics. he was bombastic. if he runs as an independent, he s going to be basically handing the election to hillary clinton. but for his part trump gave marks to the moderators with fox news. the fox moderators fair to ....
charles, that was a big laugh line that the governor was able to get. do you think that s the type of approach that might work best for republican candidates than saying angry attack against the former secretary? i m not sure it will work against former secretary clinton. i m sure it s not going to work for mike huckabee because he s not going to be around in the fall. what struck me about the debate and you touched on it a little bit with the series of tweets you mentioned, is that it looked like it was taking place in an alternate universe with an alternate universe of issues. climate change to name one, that the clintons didn t mention, didn t come up at all except in one question in the happy hour debate where lindsey graham was asked if his fairly reasonable assessment of the scientific evidence would hurt him on the elector at. i m fully of the mind that we re going to have an election this fall with two candidates talking past each other because they have such radically diff ....
He saw in being aggressive, no down side. everybody looking at the debate saw it poorly but that s how he wanted to enter it. doing the calculations of the time of what everybody got, donald trump got the most and rand paul got the least. let s talk about the happy hour debate. because these are the seven people relegated to the 5:00 p.m. hour. a lot of people are talking about the performance, the gravitas that carly fiorina demonstrated. do you agree with that? or do you think that s some type of setup from other forces at work over at fox news? i wouldn t say at fox news. i think one thing that distinguishing carly fiorina s campaign i like happy hour debate. that s actually the most pleasant way of putting this so far. she has a very good aggressive press-savvy campaign team. they sort of tilled the soil for carly to win this debate. ....