Latest in GOP Debate

This unpredictable election season has been great for the news networks, and it gave CNN chief Jeff Zucker a lot to crow about today in a Turner Broadcasting meet-and-greet lunch with reporters at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan. “I’d be surprised if we don’t” go gavel-to-gavel at both the Democratic and GOP…

Two days after Fox News Channel announced it would host the next GOP debate, the morning after Donald Trump mopped up on Super Tuesday 3 despite the best efforts of Republican Party members to stop his momentum, and shortly after Trump announced he would be a no-show at the debate, the network threw in the towel and…

Fox News Channel will host its fourth Republican presidential primary debate March 21 from Salt Lake City. The two-hour debate will be presented live from the Salt Palace Convention Center at 9 PM ET. That’s the debate Donald Trump last week said he did not know about, adding that he thought – stop me if you’re heard…

About 12 million people watched the latest – and, according to Donald Trump, the last – GOP debate, on CNN, last night. Trump called it an “elegant” debate, which is to say he did not kick it off by assuring America that he has a large Executive Branch and refrained throughout from mocking the height of rival Marco…

Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus is telling the  boys he wants them to play nice tonight, calling for "more of a G-rated" debate in Miami. Donald Trump, meanwhile, assures debate broadcaster CNN he intends to be "softer" onstage tonight than at recent debates. But with Mitt Romney's Never Trump…

Fox News Channel’s “Donald Trump has an enormous executive branch“ debate topped AMC’s The Walking Dead to become the most watched program on all of basic cable last week, while the news network bagged a ratings record with its seventh consecutive weekly win. Thursday’s GOP debate, in which Trump boasted about the…

Fox News Channel has booked one-hour interviews and voter Q&As with each of the four remaining Republican candidates across its entire Wednesday primetime – a potential nose-punch to CNN’s GOP debate the next night and, perhaps, CNN’s Democratic debate on Wednesday. FNC’s town-hall-palooza begins at 7 PM ET tomorrow…

Fox News Channel’s GOP rumble last night set a 2016 presidential debate ratings record. Nearly 17 million viewers tuned in to watch Donald Trump brag about the size of his “hands,” defend torture and flip-flop on immigration, Ted Cruz give Trump breathing tips, John Kasich play hall monitor, etc.  The debate marks the…

Last night on Fox News Channel, the political party that loves to attack Hollywood for celebrating vulgarity, vapidity and violence staged a debate that celebrated vulgarity, vapidity and violence. Here are some of the top moments. Donald Trump’s Enormous Hands. Trump brought up his hands at the start of the debate…

Tonight’s GOP debate from Detroit is on Fox News Channel, which may mark the renewal of hostilities between Trump and moderator Megyn Kelly,   They haven’t been together since the first Republican debate way back in August.  So much has happened to the candidates since they last met on the debate stage. Ben Carson and…

Updated with Donald Trump’s response to Mitt Romney’s speech: Mitt Romney is “irrelevant” and a “failed candidate” who was so desperate for Trump’s endorsement when he ran for the White House, “I could have said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees; he would have dropped.” “He was begging me” for support, Trump added at a…

An average of 14.5 million viewers watched CNN and Telemundo’s presentation of GOP presidential candidates brawling on stage from Houston, TX, according to Nielsen Fast National data. Among adults 25-54, 4.7 million watched the fracas on the two networks. These combined-network stats make it the fifth-highest among…