{"id":2010150,"date":"2023-08-23T23:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T03:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-tucker-interview-timed-to-compete-with-fox-news-gop-debate\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T23:23:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T03:23:23","slug":"trump-tucker-interview-timed-to-compete-with-fox-news-gop-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-tucker-interview-timed-to-compete-with-fox-news-gop-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Tucker interview scheduled to rival Fox News&#8217; 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\">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-tucker-interview-timed-to-compete-with-fox-news-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=2010150&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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> \u2063 Chooses One-on-One Interview with Tucker Carlson Over GOP Debate<\/h2>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-defends-mara-gays-disturbing-american-flags-statement-social-media-pounds-them\/\" title=\"NYT Defends Mara Gay\u2019s \u2018Disturbing\u2019 American Flags Statement. Social Media Pounds Them.\">bold move<\/a>, former President Donald\u200b Trump decided to forgo \u2062the GOP\u2063 presidential primary debate and instead engage in a\u2063 captivating one-on-one \u200binterview\u200d with ex-Fox \u200cNews \u2062host Tucker Carlson. Released \u2064on X, this interview was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-wrist-slap-on-gun-tax-crimes-is-a-complete-smokescreen\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden\u2019s Wrist Slap On Gun, Tax Crimes Is A Complete Smokescreen\">strategically timed<\/a> to compete with\u200b the debate.<\/p>\n<p>While other candidates who\u2062 met the Republican \u2064National Committee&#8217;s criteria opted to \u2063attend the debate and \u200cface questions from moderators Shannon Bream \u200band Bret Baier, Trump \u200chad a different plan. Citing a poll \u200bthat showed him\u200d with a \u200dcomfortable\u200c lead, he confidently declared, &#8220;I WILL THEREFORE NOT \u200dBE \u200cDOING THE\u2064 DEBATES.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the same poll revealed that\u2064 a majority of Republicans actually\u2062 wanted to \u2062see the former president on the debate\u2063 stage. However, Trump \u200dchose to sit down with Carlson instead, delving into a wide range \u200bof topics. From his reasons\u200c for skipping the debate \u2062to his\u2062 critique of\u2063 corporate media, no stone was \u200bleft\u200d unturned.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson&#8217;s 46-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1694513603251241143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broadcast<\/a> even preempted the\u2063 start of the\u2063 debate by five minutes. After a few playful jabs at the other Republican\u2063 candidates, the conversation delved into Trump&#8217;s claims of election rigging \u2062in 2020, speculations\u2062 about President Joe Biden&#8217;s physical\u2064 and mental health, and the challenges the \u200dnext president would likely face.<\/p>\n<p>As the interview progressed, the two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/13-gop-lawmakers-join-letter-demanding-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-apologize-to-ted-cruz-over-attempted-murder-allegation\/\" title=\"13 GOP Lawmakers Join Letter Demanding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Apologize To Ted Cruz Over \u2018Attempted Murder\u2019 Allegation\">found common ground<\/a> in their shared disdain \u2063for \u200dformer &#8220;Fox \u200cNews \u2064Sunday&#8221; host Chris Wallace. However, they briefly clashed over their\u200d opinions on the fate of the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. While Carlson firmly believed Epstein had been murdered, \u2064Trump leaned \u200dtowards the belief\u2063 that Epstein had taken his own\u200c life out of\u2062 fear of a lifetime behind \u200dbars.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-tucker-interview-timed-to-compete-with-fox-news-gop-debate\/\" title=\"Trump and Tucker interview scheduled to rival Fox News' GOP debate.\">interview ultimately circled\u200c back<\/a> to one of Trump&#8217;s key concerns from his 2016 \u2064presidential\u200c campaign: the \u2063crisis at\u2063 the\u2064 U.S.-Mexico border. This\u200d was\u2062 followed by a\u200d brief discussion \u2062on the division that emerged after the events \u200dof January 6th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump chose to have an exclusive interview with ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The interview was released on X, coinciding with the GOP presidential primary debate. Unlike other candidates who met the Republican National Committee&#8217;s criteria and attended the debate, Trump decided to skip it and avoid answering questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2010151,"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-2010150","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\/2010150","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}