{"id":1971056,"date":"2023-07-12T16:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T20:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-denied-after-trying-to-send-u-s-senator-to-iowa-as-surrogate-for-event-hes-skipping\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T20:52:40","slug":"trump-denied-after-trying-to-send-u-s-senator-to-iowa-as-surrogate-for-event-hes-skipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-denied-after-trying-to-send-u-s-senator-to-iowa-as-surrogate-for-event-hes-skipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump attempted to send a U.S. Senator as his substitute for an event in Iowa, but was denied."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Ftrump-denied-after-trying-to-send-u-s-senator-to-iowa-as-surrogate-for-event-hes-skipping%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=1971056&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>Trump&#8217;s Attempt to Send a Surrogate Rejected by Event Organizer<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump reportedly tried to send a U.S. senator as a surrogate for him at an event in Iowa this week, but his request was denied by the leader of the organization behind the event.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is skipping THE FAMiLY LEADER event on Friday, hosted by Blaze Media and Tucker Carlson, due to a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-skip-notre-dame-commencement-amid-furor-over-policies-that-defy-church-teachings\/\" title=\"Biden To Skip Notre Dame Commencement Amid Furor Over Policies That Defy Church Teachings\">scheduling conflict<\/a>&#8221; involving a speech he is supposed to give at the Turning Point Action conference near Mar-a-Lago over the weekend. Notably, Carlson will be present at both events.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Vander Plaats, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yes-the-church-is-the-bride-of-christ\/\" title=\"Yes, The Church Is The Bride Of Christ\">influential evangelical leader<\/a> in Iowa and the President and CEO of The FAMiLY Leader, revealed that he was informed of Trump&#8217;s absence from the event where his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-gov-greg-abbott-wins-republican-primary-in-landslide-victory\/\" title=\"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Wins Republican Primary in Landslide Victory\">top challenger<\/a>, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, is set to appear.<\/p>\n<p>New York Times reporter Jonathan Swan shared that Trump later reached out to Vander Plaats, attempting to send U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his surrogate, but the request was turned down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Team Trump reached out to Bob Vander Plaats earlier today and requested to send Senator JD Vance to Friday&#8217;s event as a surrogate for Trump,&#8221; Swan reported. &#8220;Vander Plaats denied the request.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swan later received a text message from Vander Plaats confirming the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, they did reach out to me and graciously offered JD Vance as a surrogate for President Trump,&#8221; Vander Plaats wrote. &#8220;Our policy has always been to decline surrogates or video presentations for our Summits. The Trump representative accepted and appreciated our rationale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vander Plaats texts: &#8220;Yes, they did reach out to me and graciously offered JD Vance as a surrogate for President Trump. Our policy has always been to decline surrogates or video presentations for our Summits. The Trump representative accepted and appreciated our rationale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanvswan\/status\/1678937470824595457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This news coincides with senior Trump advisor Jason Miller&#8217;s statement this week that &#8220;President Trump has indicated that he&#8217;s unlikely to participate&#8221; in the Republican Party primary debates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It really wouldn&#8217;t make much sense for him to go and debate right now with a bunch of folks who are down at three, four, and five percent,&#8221; Miller explained. &#8220;So ultimately, President Trump will make a decision as we get closer. He has not said anything definitive, one way or the other. I&#8217;m not expecting him to participate, though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, on the other hand, confirmed to Fox News last week that he will attend the debate regardless of Trump&#8217;s presence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be there, regardless,&#8221; DeSantis asserted. &#8220;I hope everybody who is eligible comes. I think it is an important part of the process, and I look forward to being able to be on the stage and introducing our candidacy and our vision, and our leadership to a wide audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump attempted to send a U.S. senator as his representative to an event in Iowa that he is skipping this week. However, the leader of the organization hosting the event, THE FAMiLY LEADER, rejected Trump&#8217;s request. The event, hosted by Blaze Media and Tucker Carlson, will take place on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1971057,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1971056","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}