{"id":350449,"date":"2023-08-20T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T04:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=350449"},"modified":"2023-08-20T09:03:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T04:03:40","slug":"trump-center-stage-despite-threat-to-skip-republican-debate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/trump-center-stage-despite-threat-to-skip-republican-debate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump center stage despite threat to skip Republican debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> WASHINGTON<br \/>\nAll eyes are on Donald Trump as the Republican White House hopefuls prepare to do battle in the first debate of the 2024 race on Wednesday \u2014 with the main attraction threatening not to show up.<br \/>\nFive months ahead of the start of primary elections to choose the party\u2019s flagbearer, the runaway frontrunner\u2019s grassroots support is as strong as ever, but numerous criminal cases have cast a pall over his comeback bid. The 77-year-old former president, who is rarely out of the headlines, has been vocal about possibly skipping the event in the midwesten city of Milwaukee, wary of sharing the limelight with lower-polling rivals. \u201cI am leading the runner up, whoever that may now be, by more than 50 Points. Reagan didn\u2019t do it, and neither did others. People know my Record, one of the BEST EVER, so why would I Debate?\u201d Trump posted on social media on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON All eyes are on Donald Trump as the Republican White House hopefuls prepare to do battle in the first debate of the 2024 race on Wednesday \u2014 with the main attraction threatening not to show up. Five months ahead of the start of primary elections to choose the party\u2019s flagbearer, the runaway frontrunner\u2019s grassroots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump center stage despite threat to skip Republican debate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/trump-center-stage-despite-threat-to-skip-republican-debate-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump center stage despite threat to skip Republican debate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON All eyes are on Donald Trump as the Republican White House hopefuls prepare to do battle in the first debate of the 2024 race on Wednesday \u2014 with the main attraction threatening not to show up. 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