August 8, 2015
...“If your standard-bearer has to resort to that,” (click here) Mr. Erickson told hundreds
of conservative activists in a packed Atlanta hotel ballroom on
Saturday, “we need a new standard-bearer.”
With Mr. Trump at center stage
Thursday in Cleveland, Fox News shattered television viewership records
for a primary debate: Nearly 24 million people watched. But any hopes
that Mr. Trump, the real estate developer and television celebrity,
would try to reinvent himself as a sober-minded statesman, or that he
would collapse under scrutiny and tough questions, vaporized in the
opening minutes when he refused to rule out running as an independent
candidate for president. His remarks Friday only furthered the
impression that he also had no intention of speaking more carefully. Mr.
Trump denied on Saturday that he had been implying that Ms. Kelly was
menstruating. “I think only a degenerate would think that I would have
meant that,” he said in an interview, insisting that he had been
referring to Ms. Kelly’s nose and ears....
