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A top aide to Donald Trump made an apparent threat against Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly over a contentious interview with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, drawing more attention to the Republican presidential candidate's troubles with women.

Dan Scavino, a senior aide to the Trump campaign, attacked Kelly late Tuesday after she sparred with Gingrich in a primetime interview regarding news coverage of allegations made by women against Trump - and whether it compares fairly to stories about the ongoing release of hacked emails from top aides to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

"That is worth covering," Kelly said of the Clinton campaign emails. "And we did."

Gingrich persisted: "I mean, you want to go back through the tapes of your show recently, you are fascinated with sex, and you don't care about public policy."

"Me? Really?" she said.

"Well, that's what I get out of watching you tonight," Gingrich replied.

"You know what, Mr. Speaker, I'm not fascinated by sex," Kelly said. "But I am fascinated by the protection of women."

Moments later, Scavino tweeted that Kelly "made a total fool out of herself tonight- attacking realDonaldTrump. Watch what happens to her after this election is over."

He has not yet specified what Kelly could face.

Gingrich dismissed the allegations against Trump during the interview, but repeatedly referred to former president Bill Clinton as a "sexual predator" - citing allegations by several women against the 42nd president dating back to the 1970s. Gingrich led Republican congressional investigations of Bill Clinton in the 1990s that resulted in his impeachment. But the Clinton inquests also brought subsequent GOP losses in congressional races that forced Gingrich to step down as speaker.

Trump, who has sparred with Kelly in the past, did not immediately weigh in on the interview. He is scheduled to attend the official opening of his family's new downtown Washington hotel on Wednesday morning - one of several visits to the property in recent months. He held an event in the yet-unfinished hotel in March, then used the venue in September to end his years-long focus on President Barack Obama's birthplace. He has also met privately there with hotel employees and used it for interviews and meetings with his foreign policy team.

The grand opening comes a day after Trump visited one of his South Florida resorts and stood on stage with employees who spoke glowingly about him. There is no recent precedent for a presidential candidate promoting his own businesses on the campaign trail.

But Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said Wednesday on "CBS This Morning" that the hotel visit is "a quick pit stop" and that Trump is scheduled to campaign later Wednesday in North Carolina and in Ohio on Thursday.

Trump's Washington visit came amid reports that he has asked aides to set aside work on his presidential transition in order to help him win the election as many polls shows him trailing badly.

The team, led by New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie, has scaled back plans to identify potential Cabinet secretaries, according to Reuters.

Clinton, meanwhile, planned to hold two campaign rallies in Lake Worth, Fla., and Tampa. The candidate, who turns 69 on Wednesday, also released two new television commercials that her campaign described as "closing arguments" to viewers in several battleground states. One of the messages is voiced by actor Morgan Freeman.

Although Clinton holds what appears to be a durable 3-point lead in Florida, she warned supporters on Tuesday not to get too comfortable.

Holding an event simultaneously with Trump in the state that represents what may be his last, tenuous, chance to rebound and win the presidential election, Clinton said she doubts he understands the duty of a president to defend the Constitution.

"It's going to be a close election," Clinton said at Broward College's North Campus. "Pay no attention to the polls. Don't get complacent."

Clinton also attended her final in-person fundraiser in Miami on Tuesday night - but her campaign has scheduled 41 other events between now and Nov. 3 featuring high-profile surrogates such as her daughter, Chelsea, running mate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and the entertainer Cher, according to a schedule sent to donors over the weekend.

Trump's campaign said Tuesday that it has scheduled no more big-money fundraising events to benefit the Republican Party, a serious blow to the party's get-out-the-vote operations with less than two weeks to go until Election Day.

The consequences of halting major fundraisers will compound the challenges facing a candidate and a party already straining to match Clinton's much larger and better-financed operation. Unlike Clinton, who has an extensive turnout operation of her own, Trump and many other GOP candidates down the ballot are relying heavily on the Republican National Committee to bring voters to the polls.

Steven Mnuchin, Trump's national finance chairman, said in an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday that Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee between the party and the campaign, held its last formal fundraiser on Oct. 19.

"We've kind of wound down," Mnuchin said, referring to formal fundraisers. "But the online fundraising continues to be strong."

Mnuchin said the Trump campaign is continuing to help bring in funds for the party, but decided to keep the candidate's final weeks focused on taking his message to the voters in person rather than on raising money.

In another sign of unexpected weakness, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the GOP vice-presidential nominee, is scheduled to pay a visit Wednesday to Utah, where polls show Trump is at risk of losing what has been a reliably Republican state.

Kaine is slated to campaign for Clinton in Pennsylvania, where recent polls give Democrats a comfortable lead.

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Sean Sullivan in Tallahassee, Anne Gearan in Coconut Creek, Fla., and Jenna Johnson, Matea Gold and John Wagner in Washington contributed to this report.

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