{"id":2007612,"date":"2023-08-21T23:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T03:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-to-no-longer-allow-trump-surrogates-in-debate-spin-room-after-trump-refuses-to-show-up\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T23:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T03:25:41","slug":"fox-news-to-no-longer-allow-trump-surrogates-in-debate-spin-room-after-trump-refuses-to-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-to-no-longer-allow-trump-surrogates-in-debate-spin-room-after-trump-refuses-to-show-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News bans Trump surrogates from debate &#8216;spin room&#8217; due to Trump&#8217;s absence."},"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\">26<\/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-to-no-longer-allow-trump-surrogates-in-debate-spin-room-after-trump-refuses-to-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=2007612&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>Fox News Restricts Access to Debate Spin Room for Trump Surrogates<\/h2>\n<p>Fox News has made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-to-no-longer-allow-trump-surrogates-in-debate-spin-room-after-trump-refuses-to-show-up\/\" title=\"Fox News bans Trump surrogates from debate 'spin room' due to Trump's absence.\">surprising\u200b move ahead<\/a> of the Republican Party primary debate in \u200cMilwaukee. After former President Donald Trump announced that he would not be attending, the network has decided to restrict access to the debate &#8220;spin room&#8221; for his \u200csurrogates.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The network informed the Trump campaign on Monday\u200d that access to the debate &#8216;spin room&#8217; was now going\u2064 to be limited to \u2062&#8217;participating candidate\/campaigns,'&#8221; according to a Fox News memo obtained by Axios.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This \u2063means that not only will Trump&#8217;s surrogates be\u200c excluded, but other campaigns\u2062 that did not qualify will also not be allowed to \u200bsend their representatives onto the network.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump Declares \u200bthe Primary Over<\/h3>\n<p>The 77-year-old former president made a bold statement over the weekend, declaring that the results of\u200c a \u200bCBS News GOP primary poll proved that the primary was over and that he did not\u2064 need to debate. However, a notable poll \u200cin Iowa released this week showed that the race could be much closer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-first-challenger-gop-gov-runs-ad-in-key-primary-states\/\" title=\"Trump\u2019s First Challenger? GOP Gov Runs Ad In Key Primary States\">key primary state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING\u2062 THE DEBATES!&#8221; Trump stated\u2064 on social media on Sunday \u2062evening.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead of participating in the debate, Trump opted to tape a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-brian-stelter-cuts-off-bari-weiss-asks-whos-stopping-the-conversation\/\" title=\"WATCH: Brian Stelter Cuts Off Bari Weiss, Asks \u2018Who\u2019s Stopping The Conversation?\u2019\">pre-recorded interview<\/a> with \u200cformer Fox News host Tucker\u200c Carlson, which will be streamed \u200con social media \u2062around the time\u200d of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>The CBS News poll that\u200b Trump cited to justify his decision included a question for &#8220;likely Republican primary voters&#8221; about his appearance at the debate.\u200d The results showed that 73% believed he \u2062should show up, while only 27% disagreed.<\/p>\n<h3>Is Trump Helping Biden?<\/h3>\n<p>Some have speculated that Trump&#8217;s decision to skip the debates may actually be helping President Joe Biden. &#8220;Fox &#038; Friends&#8221; co-host Steve Doocy suggested that by not debating, Trump is giving Biden an excuse to avoid\u200d debating him if he becomes the Republican Party nominee.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately,\u2063 by skipping the debates, Donald Trump may actually be helping Joe Biden\u200c because he&#8217;s giving Joe \u200dBiden an excuse for not debating Donald Trump,&#8221; Doocy explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Doocy further elaborated that if Trump claims he doesn&#8217;t need to debate because everyone knows him, Biden could respond by saying the same as \u2064the current \u200dpresident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News restricts Trump surrogates from GOP primary debate in Milwaukee after he announced his absence. 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