{"id":2005188,"date":"2023-08-18T17:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T21:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-expected-to-skip-first-gop-debate-takes-interview-with-tucker-carlson-instead\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T21:34:42","slug":"trump-expected-to-skip-first-gop-debate-takes-interview-with-tucker-carlson-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-expected-to-skip-first-gop-debate-takes-interview-with-tucker-carlson-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to Skip First GOP Debate, Chooses Interview with Tucker Carlson"},"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\">22<\/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-expected-to-skip-first-gop-debate-takes-interview-with-tucker-carlson-instead%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=2005188&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--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Donald Trump on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland,\u2063 Ohio. (Photo by Alex\u200c Wong\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/sophia-flores\">Sophia \u2064Flores<\/a><br \/>\n1:58 PM \u2013 \u2063Friday, August 18, 2023<\/p>\n<h2>President Trump\u200c to Skip Republican Debate<\/h2>\n<p>45<sup>th<\/sup> President Donald \u2062J. Trump\u200b is expected to miss the first Republican debate of this \u2064<a title=\"Casey DeSantis launches 'Mamas For DeSantis' campaign nationwide, starting in Iowa.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/casey-desantis-launches-national-campaign-mamas-for-desantis-in-iowa\/\">presidential season<\/a>. Instead, the once again <a title=\"No Spike in Florida Coronavirus Cases Despite No Mask Mandate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-spike-in-florida-coronavirus-cases-despite-no-mask-mandate\/\">presidential hopeful<\/a> will sit down for an interview with \u200cformer \u200bFox News Host Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\"><script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<p>For months, Trump has suggested that there is a high likelihood that he will not attend\u2062 Wednesday\u2019s debate \u200din Milwaukee, Wisconsin due to his\u200b popularity compared to that of his fellow candidates. According to\u2064 reports, in the last \u206424 hours, he has started to confirm that news to his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>There is not yet much information released \u200bregarding his interview with\u200d Carlson. It is believed that the\u2063 interview will be available to the public\u200d around the time\u2064 that the \u200bdebate is expected to air.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s advisors continue to say that while the 45<sup>th<\/sup> president is not expected to debate, he could change\u200b his mind last minute.<\/p>\n<p>Many Republican candidates are hoping\u200d to break out from Trump\u2019s shadow\u200d during the first debate. The former president is dominating the pack at 61%. His closest rival is Florida\u200c Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), who has 12% of the \u200dvote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2024 National Republican Primary:<\/p>\n<p>Trump 61% (+49)<br \/>\nDeSantis 12%<br \/>\nChristie\u2064 6%<br \/>\nRamaswamy 4%<br \/>\nPence 4%<br \/>\nHaley 2%<br \/>\nScott 1%<br \/>\nJohnson 1%<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nHead-2\u2013Head:<br \/>\nTrump 65% \u2063(+42)<br \/>\nDeSantis 23%<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nTrump 71% (+56)<br \/>\nDeSantis 15%<\/p>\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VictoryPolling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VictoryPolling<\/a>, 825 LV, 8\/15-17<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NEiPCtWhS7\">https:\/\/t.co\/NEiPCtWhS7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i7U0GAnlDs\">pic.twitter.com\/i7U0GAnlDs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Politics_Polls\/status\/1692506638639394942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Stay informed! 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Trump, the 45th President, will not participate in the initial Republican debate, focusing on his campaign instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"featured_media":2005189,"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":"Trump to Skip First GOP Debate, Chooses Interview with Tucker Carlson","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Trump to Skip First GOP Debate, Chooses Interview with Tucker Carlson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005188","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\/1209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}