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Donald Trump, the leader of the GOP primary race, is not doing any debates.
He had previously announced he would not attend the first debate hosted by a “hostile” network towards him.
However, his surrogates had planned on attending the debate, undoubtedly to call out any attacks against him.
Fox News has decided to revoke their invitations now that Trump will not be in attendance.
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Trump had planned on having quite a few of his high-profile supporters at the debate.
Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) all had plans to attend.
Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was also expected to be there, as were three of Trump’s aides, Chris LaCivita, Jason Miller, and Steven Cheung.
Fox News decided that with Trump not being there, they did not want the debate upended by his supporters, so the invited were pulled.
At last report, Team Trump was trying to get into the spin room after the debate to defend Trump, but I am not sure even that will happen.
I believe that Trump should have done the debates, but there is no way he will ever sign the required loyalty pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee.
His surrogates have made it quite clear that if Trump is not the nominee, they are keeping their votes in their pockets to upend the Republican Party.
Trump himself has stated that there are three to four people in the race that he would never support, so he will not sign that pledge, which, by the way, is a requirement by the RNC to participate in any debate.
Source: New York Post
