Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, during an interview on CNN’s Sunday broadcast of “State of the Union,” criticized the network’s questions in the second Republican debate, pointing out that opponent Carly Fiorina received “some beautiful softballs” while he received the toughest questions.
Host Jake Tapper asked Trump to survey the debate performances of the other candidates on “State of the Union,” and chuckled at Trump’s response.
Trump: Well, I think Carly had a good night, but I think you gave her a lot of easy questions. You know, you read off a couple of questions which all you had to say “I agree with that,” so I think she had some pretty easy questions. You gave her some beautiful softballs. Certainly the most difficult evening, and I got very good marks. I have won every poll in terms of, you know, the debate, but I think certainly — and this happened with Fox also — certainly I got the toughest questions. I think with you I got the toughest questions. And when they weren’t asked to me they were asked to other people with my name in it. I guess 47 percent of the questions according to what the media said had Trump or Trump-related.
Tapper: You are the frontrunner, sir.
Trump: I do think Carly did well and I think that Marco did well. I actually think just about everybody did well. I don’t think there was any disaster.