Donald Trump feels heat in feisty TV debate

An estimated 24 million Americans watched Fox News Channel’s prime-time debate with the top 10 Republican presidential candidates, the highest-rated broadcast in the network’s history.

Thursday’s debate ratings more than doubled Fox News’s best ratings in the past, for election night 2012, the Nielsen company said. A debate with seven lower-polling candidates earlier in the day had 6.1 million viewers.

The debate turned into a slugfest, with front-runner Donald Trump in particular feeling the heat.