{"id":1982747,"date":"2023-07-25T22:12:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T02:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kellyanne-conway-tells-fox-news-to-keep-center-podium-open-for-first-gop-debate\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T22:12:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T02:12:50","slug":"kellyanne-conway-tells-fox-news-to-keep-center-podium-open-for-first-gop-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kellyanne-conway-tells-fox-news-to-keep-center-podium-open-for-first-gop-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Kellyanne Conway asks Fox News to leave center podium available for first GOP debate."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fkellyanne-conway-tells-fox-news-to-keep-center-podium-open-for-first-gop-debate%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=1982747&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>Former President Donald Trump Likely\u2062 to Participate in First Republican Presidential Debate<\/h2>\n<p>According to former White House aide Kellyanne Conway, former President Donald Trump is expected to join his rivals at the first Republican presidential\u200d debate next month. Despite \u200cTrump&#8217;s\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-auditors-say-election-data-wasnt-destroyed-contradicting-previous-statements\/\" title=\"Arizona Auditors Say Election Data Wasn\u2019t Destroyed, Contradicting Previous Statements\">previous statements suggesting<\/a> he may skip the debate,\u200c Conway believes he won&#8217;t be \u2063able to resist\u2064 the opportunity\u200d to\u200b engage with his opponents on stage.<\/p>\n<p>During\u2063 a Fox News interview on Monday, Conway stated, &#8220;If I \u2063were you, I \u2063would keep that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kellyanne-conway-tells-fox-news-to-keep-center-podium-open-for-first-gop-debate\/\" title=\"Kellyanne Conway asks Fox News to leave center podium available for first GOP debate.\">center podium warm<\/a> because maybe\u2064 he&#8217;ll make the announcement the day of. You just\u2064 never know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway suggested \u2063that the former president\u2062 may participate in the first Republican presidential primary debate but will likely \u201ckeep everybody in suspense\u201d in the lead-up. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ORJqXSFe31\">https:\/\/t.co\/ORJqXSFe31<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Hill (@thehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1683815895750135808?\">July 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Conway summarized the crosscurrents of Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-will-carry-out-my-duties-texas-sen-angela-paxton-on-husbands-pending-impeachment-trial\/\" title=\"\u2018I Will Carry Out My Duties\u2019: Texas Sen. Angela Paxton on Husband\u2019s Pending Impeachment Trial\">potential participation<\/a> in the debate.\u200c On one hand, he is currently leading the race and may not have\u200b much to gain by attending. On the other \u200dhand, debating is a natural habitat for him, as demonstrated during his first campaign in 2015 when he surpassed his competitors and eventually became the nominee and president.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing her preference, Conway said, &#8220;I hope he goes,&#8221; according to Mediaite.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is among a handful of candidates who have qualified for the August 23 debate in Milwaukee, which will be televised by Fox News. Other \u2062qualified candidates include Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, \u2062former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, and former New Jersey \u200cGov. Chris Christie, as reported by Fox News.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Christie is asked about Trump skipping debates: \u201cMakes my life even better,\u2062 because then I won\u2019t have to talk over him. He loves to interrupt everybody. I\u2019m going\u2063 to talk about Trump and his record whether he\u2019s on\u2064 the stage or not.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RF9nV5Jhaq\">pic.twitter.com\/RF9nV5Jhaq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonFilipkowski\/status\/1683647959471210496?\">July 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the Washington Times, Chris \u2062Christie believes Trump should attend the debate. He stated, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to go in there, and he should be\u2063 on that stage because he owes it to the Republican Party voters to get on the stage, defend his record, and talk about his vision\u200c for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kellyanne-conway-tells-fox-news-keep-center-podium-open-first-gop-debate\/\">Kellyanne Conway Tells \u2064Fox \u2062News to Keep Center Podium Open for First GOP Debate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White House aide Kellyanne Conway predicts that former President Donald Trump will participate in the upcoming Republican presidential debate, despite his previous statements suggesting he may skip it. Conway, who played a key role in Trump&#8217;s 2016 campaign, believes he will join his rivals at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":1982748,"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-1982747","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\/1982747","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}