Donald Trump is blasting Megyn Kelly again and this time, it’s over poll numbers. Donald Trump fired up his twitter fingers on Tuesday to send out some very impassioned messages, calling out Megyn Kelly’s journalism credentials and her math skills.
Donald Trump’s most recent gripe with Kelly was that she misstated the extent of his lead in a recent poll.
As E! Online reports, Trump’s anger was ignited during a segment during Megyn Kelly’s show on Monday night that revolved around the Monmouth University poll . According to the poll, Trump received 41% support, lapping his closest rival Senator Ted Cruz by 27 points. However, Kelly said that he was only leading by 15 points.
In reponse Trump fired off a barrage of tweets that targeted Megyn Kelly.
. @megynkelly , the most overrated anchor at @FoxNews , worked hard to explain away the new Monmouth poll 41 to 14 or 27 pt lead. She said 15!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2015
. @megynkelly is very bad at math. She was totally unable to figure out the difference between me and Cruz in the new Monmouth Poll 41to14.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2015
Kelly wasn’t the only one that Trump called out. He also had words for CNN, claiming that they were prioritizing polls that make it seem like Donald Trump isn’t in the lead.
Isn’t it amazing that @CNN paid a fortune for an Iowa Poll, which shows me in first place over Cruz by 13%, 33% to 20% – then doesn’t use it — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2015
Tonight, Donald Trump will face off against the other GOP presidential hopefuls as they participate in the CNN debate. Trump also openly questioned whether Megyn Kelly and her team were going to objectively cover the debate.
I wonder if @megynkelly and her flunkies have written their scripts yet about my debate performance tonight. No matter how well I do – bad! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2015
Trump went on to call Megyn “dopey” and even called out some of her Fox colleagues like Karl Rove, Charles Krauthammer and Georgina Williams. Interestingly enough Georgina Williams made a screenshot of Trump’s tweet her Twitter header.
If you don’t remember, Trump’s first face-off against Megyn Kelly happened during the first round of Republican debates. Trump claimed that Kelly had unfairly targeted him with difficult questions, particularly one where she questioned some of the disparaging comments he’s made about women in the past. As CNN reported at the time, in an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon after the debate, Trump said that Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes or blood coming out of her wherever.”
Trump later sought to clarify his comments via Twitter.
Re Megyn Kelly quote: “you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever” (NOSE). Just got on w/thought — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 8, 2015
In October during an interview with Charlie Rose, Megyn Kelly said that neither she nor the head of Fox, Roger Ailes, wanted to go to battle with Donald Trump at the time.
“Neither one of us wanted any sort of a war with Donald Trump,” she said during the interview with Rose. “We didn’t think that benefitted the channel, we didn’t think it benefitted me, and we don’t think it benefitted Donald Trump and I think Donald Trump would say that now.”
At the time of the writing of this article, Megyn Kelly has not responded to Trump’s recent comments about her aptitude for math and journalistic ethics. According to The Hill , a Fox spokesperson has come out to say that there was an error in the script in Monday’s broadcast which would be addressed during Tuesday’s show.
[Photo of Donald Trump by Ian MacNichols/ Getty Images]
[Photo of Megyn Kelly by Craig Barritt/ Getty Images]
