{"id":2007628,"date":"2023-08-21T23:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T03:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-trump-cited-as-reason-to-skip-debates-shows-majority-of-republicans-want-him-to-show-up\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T23:41:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T03:41:48","slug":"poll-trump-cited-as-reason-to-skip-debates-shows-majority-of-republicans-want-him-to-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-trump-cited-as-reason-to-skip-debates-shows-majority-of-republicans-want-him-to-show-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll shows most Republicans want Trump to participate in debates despite his concerns."},"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%2Fpoll-trump-cited-as-reason-to-skip-debates-shows-majority-of-republicans-want-him-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=2007628&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>The Overwhelming Majority of Republican Voters Want Trump to Debate<\/h2>\n<p>The \u2063poll that former President Donald Trump cited over the weekend to\u2062 justify not participating in the Republican Party primary debates shows that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/assanges-fiance-if-i-could-speak-to-the-president-i-would-tell-him-julians-liberty-and-the-liberty-of-the-united-states-hang-together\/\" title=\"Assange\u2019s Fianc\u00e9: \u2018If I Could Speak to the President, I Would Tell Him Julian\u2019s Liberty and the Liberty of the United States Hang Together\u2019\">overwhelming majority<\/a> of \u2062Republican voters want him to show up and debate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump cited a CBS News poll \u200dthat showed him at\u2063 62%, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at 16%, and everyone else in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-gov-gretchen-whitmer-allegedly-traveled-to-florida-before-expressing-concern-about-traveling-to-fl\/\" title=\"Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Allegedly Traveled To Florida Before Expressing \u2018Concern\u2019 About Traveling To FL\">single digits<\/a> to explain\u200b why he did not plan to make a showing at the debates.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u2064he believes that voters already know who he is and\u2064 concluded by stating: \u2063 <strong>\u201cI WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In new Truth\u2064 Social \u2062post, Trump says he won\u2019t be doing debates (plural). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SaSD9ptGDv\">pic.twitter.com\/SaSD9ptGDv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Melugin \u200b(@BillMelugin_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/1693384356016894200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Republican Primary Voters Want Trump to Show Up<\/h3>\n<p>However, a review of the poll\u2019s\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/666053809\/cbs-20230820-SUN#download&#038;from_embed\">cross-tabs<\/a> shows that likely Republican primary voters want Trump to show up.<\/p>\n<p>Likely GOP primary voters were asked, \u201cDo you think Donald Trump should\u200b or should not participate in the Republican\u200c debate?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, 73% said that he <strong>\u201cshould\u201d<\/strong> show up to the debate \u200cwhile just 27% said that he <strong>\u201cshould not.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some of the president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-trump-cited-as-reason-to-skip-debates-shows-majority-of-republicans-want-him-to-show-up\/\" title=\"Poll shows most Republicans want Trump to participate in debates despite his concerns.\">top media allies<\/a>\u2062 have urged him to show up, arguing that he could be hurting \u200bhimself later if he becomes the nominee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFox &#038; Friends\u201d co-host Steve Doocy\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fox-news-host-steve-doocy-says-trump-may-actually-be-helping-biden-by-skipping-debates\">said<\/a> Monday, <strong>\u201cUnfortunately, by skipping the debates, Donald Trump may actually be helping Joe\u200c Biden because he\u2019s giving \u200bJoe Biden \u200can excuse for not debating Donald Trump.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s one of the things that Ronna McDaniel told the former president when \u2063she\u2062 was trying to get him to do the first \u200ddebate,\u201d\u2062 he continued. \u2064\u201cBut he said, nope,\u2064 not going to \u200ddo it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doocy explained that <strong>\u201cif Donald Trump says, \u2018everybody knows me, I don\u2019t need to do it\u2019, then Joe Biden \u200bgoes, \u2018everybody\u200c knows me, I\u2019m president\u2019.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden would love to see Trump not do it, then he\u2019s got a perfect [response]: \u2018I don\u2019t \u200dhave to do it either then, he\u200d didn\u2019t do it!\u2019,\u201d he addd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>else in single digits. This poll highlights the strong support for Trump among Republican voters, making it clear that they want him to participate in the primary debates. With a commanding lead over other potential candidates, Trump&#8217;s decision not to debate may not align with the desires of his party&#8217;s base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2007629,"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-2007628","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\/2007628","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}