GOP front-runner Donald Trump took aim at Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Tuesday evening with a flurry of insults over Twitter, just moments after he was declared the winner in Florida’s Republican primary.
Can’t watch Crazy Megyn anymore. Talks about me at 43% but never mentions that there are four people in race. With two people, big & over!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 16, 2016
Watching other networks and local news. Really good night! Crazy @megynkelly is unwatchable.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 16, 2016
He also re-tweeted several accounts that were equally critical of Kelly:
“@jsconlon11: @BertShad @Foxnews @megynkelly I tried to give them a shot tonight, but they have the whole anti Trump cheerleading team.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2016
“@gregens21: @BertShad @FoxNews @megynkelly She’s choking on the results! Call her justifiable Kelly. Justifying everything she says.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2016
“@BertShad: Was going to watch @Foxnews for the primary results but saw @megynkelly – looks like #CNN tonight”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2016
Trump bested his GOP opponents, including Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, in the Sunshine State’s winner-take-all primary race.
Florida is worth 99 delegates, which moves Trump closer to snatching the Republican Party’s nomination. Rubio staged his last stand in his home state, but he ended up badly beaten, losing most of the state’s counties to the billionaire businessman.
Shortly after the state was declared for Trump, Rubio held a press conference wherein he officially suspended his presidential campaign.
“I endeavored over the last 11 months to bridge this divide in our party,” the Florida lawmaker told a group of crestfallen supporters n Florida Tuesday evening. “While we are on the right side this year, we will not be on the winning side.”
He continued, quoting scripture and saying that it was not in God’s plan for him to be president of the United States.
“While this may not have been the year for a hopeful and optimistic message about our future, I still remain hopeful and optimistic for the future of America,” he said.
Meanwhile, Trump was taking shots Tuesday evening at Kelly, who he has attacked repeatedly throughout the 2016 GOP primary.
The casino tycoon’s one-sided feud with the Fox anchor dates back to August 2015, when Kelly moderated the first GOP primary debate. In the debate, Kelly appeared to catch Trump off guard with a question about his treatment of women.
“You call women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs,’ and ‘disgusting animals,'” she said. “Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?”
Trump responded with remarks about how “political correctness” is destroying the country. He complained after the debate that Kelly’s questions were “unfair” and “not nice.”
The Republican candidate later suggested in an interview with CNN that Kelly might have been menstruating during the debate.
“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever,” he said, adding that her questions were “ridiculous” and “off-base.”
This touched off an ongoing public spat between the two in which Kelly has remained mostly silent while Trump has raged on.
Since August, Trump has accused Kelly of bias, he has attacked her evening show repeatedly on social media and he even boycotted a Fox GOP debate in January, claiming that it wouldn’t be worth participating so long as the network’s “unfair” anchor was involved.
Kelly is slated to moderate a fourth GOP debate on March 21 from Salt Lake City, Utah. She will be joined again by her colleagues Bret Baier and Chris Wallace.
