Trump Decides to Skip the Trump Show
19th August 2023
Donald Trump has reportedly decided that he won’t be attending the first Republican debate next Wednesday and will counter-program by sitting down for an interview with Tucker Carlson. (The choice is a double middle-finger: one from Trump to the RNC, another from Carlson to his former network.) In the end, the question of whether Trump would show up or not became a fairly low-stakes question. A candidate with a lead as large as his just doesn’t need to sweat decisions like this all that much.
The purpose of a debate is to compare the positions and arguments of two parties that are arguably not very well known. Who doesn’t know (or think they know) where Trump stands on pretty much any issue?