Trump Boycotts Fox News While Carson Takes Clinton to Task
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he’s boycotting Fox News, claiming they didn’t give his latest good poll numbers enough air time.
“The polls came out the other day; they were outstanding. Fox didn’t put them up,” Trump said. “I didn’t feel I was being treated fairly.”
But the network said they had already canceled a Trump appearance before his boycott.
A Fox News spokeswoman says Trump only announced his boycott after the channel canceled a scheduled Trump appearance on The O’Reilly Factor Thursday.
She said that when coverage doesn’t go Trump’s way, he engages in personal attacks on Fox anchors and hosts, and his behavior has “grown stale and tiresome.”
Trump’s been feuding with Fox since the first Republican primary debate, when moderator Megyn Kelly pressed him to explain insulting comments he’s made about women.
And he’s still hurling insults at his Republican rivals, calling Florida Sen. Marco Rubio a “lightweight” because Rubio criticized his lack of foreign policy experience.
Meanwhile, one new poll raises doubts about Trump’s ability to beat Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the general election, putting them neck and neck in Florida.
But that same Florida Atlantic University poll shows Ben Carson would trounce Clinton in the state, 52 to 40 percent, if he were the Republican nominee.
It also shows Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush would do much better than Trump against Clinton in a head-to-head matchup in Florida. Both Rubio and Bush would beat her by 8 percent.
