{"id":2015399,"date":"2023-08-29T12:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T16:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-reveals-whether-it-was-the-right-decision-to-skip-gop-debate\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T16:39:13","slug":"trump-reveals-whether-it-was-the-right-decision-to-skip-gop-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-reveals-whether-it-was-the-right-decision-to-skip-gop-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump shares his stance on skipping 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\">16<\/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-reveals-whether-it-was-the-right-decision-to-skip-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=2015399&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 Donald Trump Explains Why\u2062 He Skipped the Republican Presidential Debate<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump recently shed light on his\u2063 decision to skip\u2064 the first Republican presidential \u200ddebate in Milwaukee. In a Truth Social post, he\u2062 revealed that his poll numbers have actually increased since the &#8220;boring&#8221; and poorly-rated debate. Trump \u200bconfidently \u200bstated, &#8220;I\u2063 made the right decision, and broke all \u2063records with the Tucker Carlson Interview!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-campaign-releases-video-supercut-of-democrats-disputing-republican-election-victories-5482350\">Trump Campaign Releases Video Supercut \u200bof\u200c Democrats Disputing Republican \u200cElection Victories<\/a>\n<p><span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/29\/2023<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/actor-jon-voight-supports-trump-in-video-message-condemns-governments-disgusting-scheme-5482391\">Actor Jon Voight Supports Trump in\u200b Video Message, Condemns Government&#8217;s &#8216;Disgusting Scheme&#8217;<\/a>\n<p><span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/29\/2023<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s decision to skip the debate was partly due\u200c to his opposition to the Republican National\u200b Committee&#8217;s pledge,\u200d which required candidates to support the ultimate \u2062winner of the primary.\u2062 Instead, he opted for a <a title=\"Father Arrested, Jailed For Contempt After Referring To His Daughter As \u2018She\u2019\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/father-arrested-jailed-for-contempt-after-referring-to-his-daughter-as-she\/\">video interview<\/a>\u2063 with Tucker Carlson, which garnered nearly \u200c300 million impressions \u200bon\u2062 X, the <a title=\"Trump shares his stance on skipping GOP debate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-reveals-whether-it-was-the-right-decision-to-skip-gop-debate\/\">social\u2064 media platform owned<\/a> by Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, President \u200bTrump&#8217;s mugshot in a Georgia election\u200c case generated significant attention, \u200dresulting in $7.1 \u200cmillion\u200b in donations to his campaign. This mugshot \u2062served as his first post on X in over two \u2063years.<\/p>\n<p>While \u200bsome polls indicate a slight decrease in Trump&#8217;s support following the debate, an average of polls from RealClearPolitics \u200cshows \u2062only a 1.5 percentage point dip from August 20 to August 29. In fact, his support even increased by 0.9 \u2063percent\u200b from August 28 to August 29.<\/p>\n<p>Steve\u200b Doocy of Fox News, however, suggested that voters are exploring other Republican candidates, claiming that Trump&#8217;s absence from the debate was a mistake. Nonetheless, an internal poll from the Trump campaign reveals that he maintains a <a title=\"Poll: Donald Trump Far More Popular than Mitch McConnell in Swing States\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-donald-trump-far-more-popular-than-mitch-mcconnell-in-swing-states\/\">39-point lead<\/a>\u200b over Florida Gov.\u200d Ron DeSantis in a head-to-head matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lower viewership compared to his previous \u2063presidential \u2062campaign, the \u2063first \u200cdebate still attracted 13 million viewers and outperformed other programs on that evening. Fox News and Nielsen reported that it\u200b was the best-performing non-sports program of the\u200c year.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump remains confident in his decision to skip the debate, emphasizing the lackluster performance of \u2062some participants and the overall disappointing ratings.\u200b As he stated on Truth Social, &#8220;Some of the answers were sooo bad,\u200b with delivery even worse. The numbers were less than half what\u2063 I h<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump revealed why he skipped the first Republican debate in Milwaukee. He cited the Republican National Committee&#8217;s requirement for candidates to sign a pledge as one of the reasons. Trump had previously stated his decision not to attend the debate, which included eight other GOP candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2015400,"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 shares his stance on skipping GOP debate","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Trump shares his stance on skipping GOP debate","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015399","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}