people who show up and say it s a red state will be very very strong conservatives many of the party activists. they re look for a candidate. they re looking for someone who expresses their views. but at some point they re also looking for someone who has a chance of actually being nominated or actually winning a presidential election. those calculations come in much later in the process. reporter: late this afternoon, former hewlett-packard carly fiorina rallied the crowd. most analysts say she won the debate yesterday. we have reports from the inspector general that they find federal government employees watching porn all day long and pulling down the same pay pension and benefits as somebody trying to do a good job. really? as donald trump would say, you re fired! and donald trump is among five additional candidates scheduled to speak at the red state gathering tomorrow. the normally outspoken candidate
@redstate, i miss you all and thanks for all of your support. political correctness is killing our country. weakness. so many politically correct fools in our country. we have to get back to work stop wasting time and energy on nonsense. you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, and blood coming out of her wherever, nose. clarification. just got on with thought. the organizer of today s red state gathering did talk about that decision. i have given donald trump a lot of latitude, because he is not a professional politician. he has been a very blunt talker. i ve said some dumb things in my life and i ve apologized for them. i reached out to the donald trump campaign last night and said, is mr. trump willing to apologize for clarify that he wasn t suggesting that a
very derogatory he goes after meg again kelly, after rosie o donnell, after women in general. i think that s a huge problem. jonathan, before i get your reaction, kasie, to kathleen s point, have any of the other campaigns said anything about donald trump s comments? reporter: so far i have no, ma am seen other campaigns respond directly. keep in mind this happened late at night. i have heard privately from several other republican campaigns very interested in making sure that i was aware that these comments had been made. so it s certainly something that all the other campaigns are paying very close attention to. we re going to hear from several of these additional candidates here today at red state. i m sure as the day progresses, we re going to start to hear more from these other campaigns. i think there s been some hess tans to criticize trump from
george w. bush administration official and zerlina maxwell, contributor to essence magazine. so ladies we have kasie hunt who sent us a note saying erick erickson is reading aloud angry tweets by trump supporters at today s red state gathering. so first off, respond to what you think is behind his popularity and is red state correct to have disinvited him? i ll start with the last part of this question. yes, i think erick made the right move. it s a strong move it send a strong signal and it s not a signal that should be among conservatives trying to say they re rebuking these comments. i think overall the basic tenet for running for president is respect for women. we saw this in 2008 that s why i wrote you ve come a long way maybe. there were a lot of sexist remarks and people rolled over them. there was a moment when women s groups, who are very silent right now, and some conservative womens groups are saying and
i think there was some of that reflected in the comments of rush and others. but i think that the key thing was for a lot of conservatives, was the fact that and rush touched on it. you didn t have the other candidates take the moment and drive home the point and to really kind of sort of bring in this lion on the stage. i think that was the key moment that did not happen, and i think that bothers a lot of folks. what s going on now in georgia with red state i think is the further reaction to that, and erick erickson is like we re not even going to pretend and go down this road and push people to get it done the right way. kasie hunt, we ll see you again in the next hour. much more from where you are in atlanta. and we ll look at what we can expect from some of the other candidates speaking at red state