{"id":1964550,"date":"2023-07-05T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-plans-for-first-gop-debate-devolve-into-chaos-hardly-anyone-may-show-up\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:53:20","slug":"fox-news-plans-for-first-gop-debate-devolve-into-chaos-hardly-anyone-may-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-plans-for-first-gop-debate-devolve-into-chaos-hardly-anyone-may-show-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News&#8217; GOP debate plans in chaos &#8211; few expected to attend."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffox-news-plans-for-first-gop-debate-devolve-into-chaos-hardly-anyone-may-show-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1964550&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Could the first Republican primary debate shape up as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-war-of-the-rohirrim-producer-trashes-amazons-rings-of-power-series\/\" title=\"\u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim\u201d Producer Trashes Amazon\u2019s \u201cRings of Power\u201d Series\">total dud<\/a>?<\/h2>\n<p>Rules for the August Fox News event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, could ensure only a few candidates even have stage access, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/07\/02\/gop-debate-2024-00104501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Low polling support and inability to attract campaign donors could prevent more than half of the announced candidates from making it.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican National Committee is requiring that candidates receive contributions from 40,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-announce-104-million-off-year-record-breaking-fundraising-haul-in-2021\/\" title=\"Senate Republicans Announce 4 Million Off-Year Record-Breaking Fundraising Haul in 2021\">000 unique donors<\/a> to make the debate, with at least 200 in 20 respective states, according to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Only former President Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy have met the donor criteria.<\/p>\n<p>The standards could bar candidates like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mike-pence-launching-presidential-campaign-next-week-aiming-new-strategy-fight-trump-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Pence<\/a> \u2014 himself a former Republican vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates also must earn more than one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-police-union-president-far-left-infiltrated-capitol-protests\/\" title=\"Chicago Police Union President: Far-left infiltrated Capitol protests\">percent support<\/a> in three recognized polls after July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Contenders for the nomination must also pledge their loyalty to the party\u2019s eventual nominee \u2014 a prospect that some candidates have handily rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Former New Jersey Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chris-christie-gets-harsh-reaction-crowd-goes-offensive-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Christie<\/a> harshly criticized the loyalty pledge in a June interview, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/chris-christie-says-rnc-loyalty-pledge-useless-idea-rcna89954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a>. The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-not-to-judge-anti-pipeline-activist-dismissed-pedophilia-allegation-against-colleague\/\" title=\"\u2018I\u2019m Not to Judge\u2019: Anti-Pipeline Activist Dismissed Pedophilia Allegation Against Colleague\">political ally<\/a> of Trump has staked out his candidacy on aggressively criticizing the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Christie subsequently said he would sign the pledge \u2014 while all but admitting he didn\u2019t intend to honor it if Trump won the nomination, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/03\/us\/politics\/-2023-07-02-us-politics-republicans-pledge-nominee-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will do what I need to do to be up on that stage,\u201d Christie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to take the pledge just as seriously as Donald Trump took it in 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no solid indication that the Republican elephant in the room will even show up for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Trump \u2014 who leads polling in the primary contest significantly \u2014 has repeatedly questioned why he would even attend the debate.<\/p>\n<p>The frontrunner cited his whopping polling lead as justification for potentially skipping the event, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/27\/trump-suggests-he-wont-participate-in-2024-gop-debates\/?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=nypost&#038;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m leading by 40 points. A lot of people say, \u2018Why would you do a debate when you have people at two and three and fifteen and fourteen [percent]?&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jack-smith-poised-slap-trump-massive-new-charges-existing-case-fails-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> said on a New York radio show.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: The GOP primary debate stage could turn out to be quite small<br \/>\n-Trump threatening to skip<br \/>\n-DeSantis allies saying he won\u2019t debate if Trump won\u2019t<br \/>\n-Polling\/$ criteria that could keep out cands<br \/>\n-A loyalty pledge some cands won\u2019t sign<\/p>\n<p>w\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natalie_allison?\">@natalie_allison<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gGU7VJ4CqG\">https:\/\/t.co\/gGU7VJ4CqG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politicoalex\/status\/1675519558726156288?\">July 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump hasn\u2019t ruled out participating in the debate either, though there are rumors he may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-leaning-toward-skipping-first-gop-primary-debate-may-hold-competing-event-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">host his own event<\/a> at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fox-news-plans-first-gop-debate-devolve-chaos-hardly-anyone-may-show\/\">Fox News&#8217; Plans for First GOP Debate Devolve Into Chaos &#8211; Hardly Anyone May Show Up<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming Republican primary debate might be a flop. Politico reports that strict rules for the August Fox News event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, may limit stage access to only a handful of candidates. With low poll numbers and difficulty attracting donors, over half of the declared candidates might not make the cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":1964551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}