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Kelly's August ratings just in: Did she slay Trump? Fox News anchor's feud with the Donald a fresh
factor, by Joe Kovacs, 9/1/15, WND
When it comes to the battle between presidential
candidate Donald Trump and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, who is winning? It
depends on what you use as your criteria for victory.
If television ratings are your sole factor, it
appears Kelly is performing extremely well, logging the highest-rated
cable-news show for the month of August, even with her vacation after the first
Republican debate.
“Buoyed by the
record-breaking showcase of Fox News Channel’s GOP debate and her 11 p.m.
telecast that night, she outpaced typical victor Bill O’Reilly for only the
third full month since she shifted to her high-profile primetime slot in late
2013,” noted the Hollywood Reporter.
“The 9 p.m. show averaged 566,000 adults 25-54,
a 41 percent jump and safely above O’Reilly’s 541,000 in the news demographic.
With the debate, their respective showings and Sean Hannity’s – the host
welcomed one of the month’s higher-profile visits from Trump –FNC primetime was
up a whopping 64 percent in the demo from August 2014. All told, it was the
net’s highest-rated month since November 2012.”
Despite Kelly’s
dominance in the television ratings, a brand-new poll Tuesday shows Republicans apparently livid with the Fox News
star. “Trump is winning his fight with Megyn Kelly,” says Public Policy Polling, which conducted the survey.
When the group last polled her in December of 2013, her
favorability with Republicans nationally was 44 percent, with an unfavorability
rating of 9 percent.
While her favorability remains in the same
neighborhood at 42 percent, her unfavorability has more than doubled to 20
percent, “largely because she’s at 20/43 with Trump’s supporters,” says the
pollster.
“Meanwhile, Trump’s popularity with GOP voters
has just continued to grow,” said PPP. “Last month before the debate his
favorability with them was 48/39, now it’s improved to 56/30. Fox News as a
whole isn’t suffering for the feud though: in February we found 66 percent of
Republicans said they trusted the network, and now we find 66 percent say they
have a favorable opinion of it.”
In the immediate
aftermath of the first debate which aired on the Fox News Channel, Trump retweeted a message that Kelly was a “bimbo.”
He also complained about the questions asked of him during the
event.
“The questions to me were far tougher, and that
I – supposedly, according to what everyone’s telling me, I won the debate,
according to the call-ins and everything,” Trump told reporters after the
debate. “But the questions to me were not nice, I didn’t think they were
appropriate, and I think Megyn behaved very badly personally.”
Kelly then went on vacation for 10 days, and
when she returned, Trump reignited the feud.
In a series of
late-night tweets, the Hill reported, Trump accused Kelly of being “off her game,” and suggested she
“must have had a terrible vacation” because she was “afraid to confront” her
guest, Cornel West, on the subject of immigration.
Comments
The Fox Debate questions
were irrelevant. I thought I was
watching the MSNBC Debate. They herded
all the candidates into social issue questions ad nauseam. Megyn Kelly’s question was a sexist low-ball,
aimed at gender division. It was a “when did you stop beating your wife ?” type
questions. Trump probably did call Rosie O’Donnell a fat pig, because she was a
Liberal Harpy.
I would rather have
heard the candidates questioned about UN Agenda 21 implementation in the US and
Muslim immigration. At least Fox could
have pummeled the candidates with questions about cutting federal spending and
the economy and the failure of the Republican Congress to reverse unpopular
Obama policies.
Fox lost more than Megyn
Kelly. Fox needed to advance the debate to deal with more substantial issues
and they failed.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA
Tea Party Leader
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