Fox & Friends
Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy said Monday that Donald Trump’s rationale for skipping the GOP primary debates could wind up helping President Joe Biden, arguing that Biden could ultimately deploy the same excuse to get out of debating Trump if he secures the 2024 Republican nomination.
On Sunday, the former president cited a CBS poll showing that his lead over his nearest GOP rival has continued to grow even as criminal charges pile up against him. In light of his current dominance, Trump said he “WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!” in a post on his Truth Social platform, implying that he plans to skip not just the first debate Wednesday night on Fox News but subsequent debates too.
“Unfortunately, by skipping the debates… Donald Trump may actually be helping Joe Biden,” Doocy said Monday morning on Fox & Friends. “Because he’s giving Joe Biden an excuse for not debating Donald Trump. That’s one of the things that [Republican National Committee Chairwoman] Ronna McDaniel told the former president when she was trying to get him to do the first debate, but he said, ‘Nope, not gonna do it.’”