{"id":2007351,"date":"2023-08-21T18:56:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T22:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kayleigh-mcenany-says-trump-debate-decision-gives-biden-an-excuse-huge-political-miscalculation\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T18:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T22:57:05","slug":"kayleigh-mcenany-says-trump-debate-decision-gives-biden-an-excuse-huge-political-miscalculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kayleigh-mcenany-says-trump-debate-decision-gives-biden-an-excuse-huge-political-miscalculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayleigh McEnany believes Trump&#8217;s debate decision provides Biden with an excuse, calling it a major political mistake."},"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\">34<\/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%2Fkayleigh-mcenany-says-trump-debate-decision-gives-biden-an-excuse-huge-political-miscalculation%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=2007351&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 White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany\u200d on Trump&#8217;s decision\u200d not to attend the first\u200c Republican primary debate<\/h2>\n<p>Former White House \u2062press secretary Kayleigh McEnany believes \u200cthat former \u2062President Donald Trump&#8217;s choice \u2064to\u2062 skip the \u2064first Republican \u2062primary debate was a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-biden-administration-to-take-colombian-rebel-organization-farc-off-terrorist-list\/\" title=\"Report: Biden Administration To Take Colombian Rebel Organization \u2018FARC\u2019 Off Terrorist List\">political miscalculation<\/a>.&#8221; Speaking on \u200bFox\u2064 News, McEnany argued that this decision would work in \u2063President Joe Biden&#8217;s favor, providing him with an excuse to avoid a\u2063 debate with\u200d Trump. She also pointed out that \u2063by \u200bnot \u2064showing \u2062up, Trump would allow his rivals to criticize\u2064 him without giving him the opportunity \u200cto defend himself.<\/p>\n<h3>Importance of the <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<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;You never\u2063 want to let someone else stand in\u2063 that center podium,&#8221; McEnany emphasized. \u2063She highlighted\u200b that the first \u2063GOP \u200cdebate would likely have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kayleigh-mcenany-says-trump-debate-decision-gives-biden-an-excuse-huge-political-miscalculation\/\" title=\"Kayleigh McEnany believes Trump's debate decision provides Biden with an excuse, calling it a major political mistake.\">largest\u2064 audience<\/a> of any Republican event this\u200c year, possibly \u2064even \u200dthe \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rush-limbaugh-didnt-need-the-new-york-times-then-or-now\/\" title=\"Rush Limbaugh Didn\u2019t Need The New York Times \u2014 Then Or Now\">largest audience<\/a> ever. By not \u2062attending, \u2063Trump\u200d would be giving up the center stage to another candidate, granting them more time to share \u200btheir stories.\u2062 Additionally, McEnany stressed that \u2063during the two-hour debate, Trump would face attacks\u2063 even if he \u2064wasn&#8217;t present, and\u2063 no one could respond \u200cto those\u200d attacks\u2064 better than Trump himself, as he is skilled at countering them.<\/p>\n<h3>Potential impact \u200bon Biden&#8217;s decision to debate<\/h3>\n<p>McEnany also\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-attorney-defends-plea-deal-says-investigation-was-thorough\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden's lawyer defends plea deal, claims investigation was comprehensive.\">mentioned reports suggesting<\/a> that Biden may not want to \u2063debate and speculated\u2062 that he could\u200c use Trump&#8217;s \u200babsence \u200das a reason not\u200d to participate. &#8220;You are giving\u2064 Joe \u200dBiden\u2062 a card to say, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to \u2062use the\u2062 Trump debate\u200c standard and \u200bnot show up because I&#8217;m so ahead \u200bin\u200c my internal\u200b polls. I&#8217;m just not coming,'&#8221; she explained. This would provide Biden \u2062with an opportunity to avoid \u2064the \u200ddebate, using Trump&#8217;s decision \u200bas justification.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s\u2064 Republican opponents, including Gov. \u200cRon DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, \u2064former Vice President\u2063 Mike Pence,\u2064 former South Carolina Gov. Nikki\u2063 Haley, Gov. Doug Burgum, former New Jersey Gov.\u200c Chris Christie, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa\u2063 Hutchinson, will \u200bbe participating in the debate on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Click \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">here<\/a> for more \u200dfrom The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayleigh McEnany, ex-White House press secretary, deemed Donald Trump&#8217;s choice to skip the initial GOP primary debate a &#8220;political blunder.&#8221; On Fox News, she argued that this move would benefit President Biden, providing him with a pretext to evade a debate against Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2007352,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2007351","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}