Donald Trump vanquishes Roger Ailes: Fox News surrenders in battle of the bullies - By Joan Walsh [View all]

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Trump spent the weekend savaging Fox and Megyn Kelly – but it was the folks at who Fox waved the white flag

JOAN WALSH

The most remarkable development in a wild political season isn’t that Donald Trump is still leading in the polls. It’s that he got in a fight with right-wing media titan Fox News – and he seems to be winning, against all predictions.

Trump has survived brawls that would have killed other candidates, but his Fox feud was supposed to be different. He was supposed to be hurt by calling undocumented Mexican immigrants “rapists” and “immigrants” in his campaign kickoff. He wasn’t. It cost him money, but gained him GOP supporters. There was widespread conviction that Trump would pay for attacking Sen. John McCain’s war record; the Washington Post’s Dan Balz suggested it could be Trump’s “Waterloo.” (I publicly said it wouldn’t be.) It wasn’t.

But there was near-consensus that Trump couldn’t win a battle with Fox News, in the wake of his contentious debate performance on the network Thursday night. Trump immediately began battering the Fox hosts, particularly Megyn Kelly, and complaining about his treatment. It seemed a dangerous move. “Donald Trump won’t win a war against Fox News,” Fivethirtyeight.com’s Nate Silver predicted. To be honest, this time I wasn’t sure.

But it looks like Silver was wrong, too. Not only has Trump remained at the top of the polls in the wake of his debate performance and Fox feud, that feud is over – and Fox’s Roger Ailes waved the white flag.

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