Posted on 09/13/2023 6:01:19 AM PDT by Reno89519
Donald Trump skipped the first Republican debate in Wisconsin last month, and the GOP frontrunner has indicated he will not join his party’s second debate in California on Sept. 27.
Republican primary voters are split over whether this strategy will help or hurt ...
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The former president reinforced his debate-skipping strategy on his social media site Truth Social writing, "The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidency I had. I WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!"
It is an approach Trump explained in a June interview with Fox News host Bret Baier in which he wondered aloud, "Why would I allow people at 1 or 2% and 0% to be hitting me with questions all night?"
Despite big leads over all his Republican rivals, there are still some party members who are unhappy with Trump's strategy.
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"I think he's making a horrible decision by not showing up for the debates," Joseph Johnson, an engineer from Los Angeles, told VOA. "He could very well lose the nomination if he keeps standing on the sideline while his policy gets ripped apart by other candidates."
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Still, Johnson said he found the Trump-less debate refreshing and appreciated the policy discussions that he believes could not have taken place if the Republican frontrunner "was sucking all the oxygen out of the room with his antics."
A poll by The Economist/YouGov from Aug. 26-29 suggests that even though most Republicans (61%) agree with Trump's decision to skip the debate, the majority hope he will attend the second one. Fifty-seven percent of Republican voters said they think Trump should participate in the event, while just 17% said they did not. Twenty-six percent said they were not sure.
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“Seriously, who are you really trying to help by repeating such silly nonsense?”
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Hear, hear!
Demanding a front runner to debate is an old political game, and is the desperate ploy of candidates and their supporters who are trailing badly!
To: President D. J. Trump . . . . Stay smart - - - Do Not Go to the RNC Debate. Thanx
But how do the dems feel about NO DEBATES, THat Is The qUESTION
He already beat all of them, the primary is effectively over.
I think if it’s just a Biden, they’re OK. But if he drops it will be an entirely different ball game. I’m sure we’d see Harris versus Newsom versus a lot of others.
OK, come back in four months, or a year for the convention and let’s see where we’re at
Well, what was the split? 95-5; 70-30.
Since Trump's standing has increased it certainly isn't worse than 60 Trump 40 everyone else including I'm just a constitutional cyborg Pence.
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A debate run by the woke is not a debate.
Trump can never be a “king-maker.” He’s not even a real Republican, which is why he is universally despised by the party’s leadership.
He been there done that and got bushwhacked. They only want him to participate so they can all gang up on him and work with the moderator to make him look bad.
AFAIC, he doesn’t have to. I’m gonna vote for him, regardless.
I’m not seeing the valuable purpose. To me it seems they are posing, eviscerating and being eviscerated.
What most folks don’t realize is that Without announcing it Donald Trump has created a third party. He’s not really Republican he’s MAGA. Why bother with a bunch of back bench never gonna be’s from an obsolete party?
No it won’t. MAGA dwarfs the Assistant Democrats.
They are NOT “Debates”
Definition of Debate
ntransitive verb
To consider something; deliberate.
To engage in argument by discussing opposing points.
To engage in a formal discussion or argument. synonym: discuss.
There is no one to debate all they have is spam and hash ideas there just in it for the money and power.
So, Trump versus the pygmies is not going to happen. Frankly, it it a waste of his time and only helps the the squishy rino crowd.
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