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Trump dis-invited from ultra conservative Red State Gathering over Kelly remarks

<p>Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;s recent clashes with Fox personality and debate moderator Megyn Kelly were cause enough for ultraconservative RedState CEO Erick Erickson to dis-invite him from his speaking engagement at the RedState Gathering 2015 currently underway&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trumps reportedly tweeted insulting remarks about Kelly&comma; including the following&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;The biggest loser in the debate was &commat;megynkelly&period; You can&&num;8217&semi;t out trump Donald Trump&period; You will lose&excl;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;Fox viewers give low marks to bimbo &commat;MegynKelly will consider other programs&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m getting a lot of &commat;MegynKelly hatemail tonight&period; &num;GOPDebate&&num;8221&semi; She is totally overrated and angry&period; She really bombed tonite&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a CNN interview&comma; Mr&period; Trump said of Kelly&comma; <em>&&num;8220&semi;You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes&period; Blood coming out of her wherever&period;&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;em>He later clarified saying he meant &&num;8220&semi;whatever&&num;8221&semi;&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Erickson sent the following message &&num;8220&semi;I have rescinded my invitation to Mr&period;Trump&period; While I have tried to give him great latitude&comma; his remark about Megyn Kelly was a bridge too far &mdash&semi; Erick Erickson &lpar;&commat;EWErickson&rpar; August 8&comma; 2015&&num;8221&semi; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8211&semi; and further &&num;8220&semi;I have tried to give a great deal of latitude to Donald Trump in his run for the Presidency&period; He is not a professional politician and is known for being a blunt talker&period; He connects with so much of the anger in the Republican base and is not afraid to be outspoken on a lot of issues&period; But there are even lines blunt talkers and unprofessional politicians should not cross&period; Decency is one of those lines&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump was also chastised by fellow Republican primary candidate Carly Fiorina&comma; who tweeted&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Mr&period; Trump&colon; There&period; Is&period; No&period; Excuse&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Author&&num;8217&semi;s analysis&colon;<&sol;strong> &nbsp&semi;The clash of&nbsp&semi;Mr&period; Trump and Ms&period; Kelly was not unexpected&comma; but he will have to start watching his words a bit&period; &nbsp&semi;This is not fatal by any means&comma; and a clash at this level is seriously the best thing that could happen to Megyn Kelly&period; &nbsp&semi;She is already primetime&comma; her audience will grow because of it&period; Everyone knows the record 24 million viewers for the debate was because of Mr&period; Trump&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The bigger issue for Mr&period; Trump is even though he is polling at &num;1&comma; he was dis-invited from RedState&period; &nbsp&semi;The RedState Gathering is a small but prestigious ultra-conservative group &lpar;I once heard Erickson say he would never be friends with someone who wasn&&num;8217&semi;t 100&percnt; pro-life&rpar;&period; &nbsp&semi; To me&comma; this means Mr&period; Trump hasn&&num;8217&semi;t gained the trust of the vocal and influential hardcore and knowledgeable political right&period; We have commented on this before&comma; it will be tough going if Mr&period; Trump doesn&&num;8217&semi;t fix this&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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