{"id":585915,"date":"2023-08-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fox-news-to-trump-show-up-for-the-debate\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T10:00:00","slug":"fox-news-to-trump-show-up-for-the-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fox-news-to-trump-show-up-for-the-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fox News to Trump: Show up for the debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/news-illustration_trumpdonald_080423mm-ap-getty_trump-fox.png?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> is furiously trying to talk former President Trump into showing up for the first GOP presidential debate later this month in August.<\/p>\n<p>The effort was reflected throughout the network\u2019s programming on Thursday, where several figures made the argument on air for why Trump shouldn\u2019t skip the debate on Fox.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThinking of the big debate coming up, and I\u2019m not saying this to sell the debate, it\u2019s a great debate and would be great if the president and all the candidates could make it, but if you\u2019re Donald Trump and this is all everyone is talking about and you own all the oxygen in the room, wouldn\u2019t you want to be in that room?\u201d Fox News host Neil Cavuto said during his 4 p.m. show on Thursday, where Trump\u2019s arraignment on charges related to his efforts to stay in power dominated the coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Days earlier, pundit Piers Morgan, who host a show on Fox\u2019s streaming service, made a direct on-air <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal to Trump, telling him to\u00a0\u201cshow us what you\u2019re made of,\u201d and participate in the first primary debate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if you\u2019re watching, Donald, come on,\u201d Morgan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump, far and away the leader in the polls, has been flirting with skipping the debate, arguing it would just elevate his competition. He\u2019s also described a \u201chostile\u201d relationship with Fox News, suggesting that could be a factor in his decision to attend or not to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The debate will be a big news event with or without Trump, but it\u2019s difficult to believe the attention \u2014 and the television ratings \u2014 won\u2019t be higher if Trump is there.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/02\/us\/politics\/trump-fox-news-indictment.html\">The New York Times reported<\/a>\u00a0that Fox News CEO\u00a0Suzanne Scott\u00a0and network President Jay Wallace had dinner with the former president at Trump\u2019s Bedminster, N.J., Golf Club on Tuesday, where they asked him to consider attending the debate.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>During the network\u2019s coverage Thursday, Fox\u2019s chief political anchor Bret Baier, who is co-moderating this month\u2019s debate, said the network would \u201cbe prepared either way\u201d if Trump decides to participate or takes a pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember back in the 2016 cycle, he didn\u2019t come to the Iowa debate, the second one we held,\u201d Baier said. \u201cBelieve it or not, up until the last minute, we had two stacks of questions. One with Donald Trump and one without. So I think we may be in that same boat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Trump makes good on his threat to ignore the first GOP debate, it will serve as a slight to Fox. Some see that as being Trump\u2019s motivation.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s highly unlikely that Trump will go out of his way to give Fox its best ratings of the year,\u201d one national Republican strategist told The Hill this week. \u201cI suspect he\u2019s going to be paying attention to the coverage on Fox over the next several weeks to see how they\u2019re treating him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who has served as a major ratings driver for cable news outlets for years, has repeatedly criticizeed Fox and its corporate ownership over what he perceives as overly positive coverage of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his top GOP primary rival.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s decision to skip the final GOP primary debate before the Iowa caucuses in 2016 came amid a large lead he had in that Republican primary field, similar to the one he holds over DeSantis and others in the running this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But there are new power dynamics between Trump and Fox at play this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In posts on his Truth <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social<\/a> website and during various media interviews, Trump has repeatedly blasted Rupert Murdoch, the powerful media mogul who owns the conservative cable channel, as a \u201cglobalist\u201d while labeling Fox News a \u201cRINO\u201d network.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know that I should be doing it, to be up against a hostile network with hostile people that are polling at zero. I mean, they don\u2019t have any votes,\u201d Trump told Breitbart this week about the prospect of appearing in a debate against the rest of the GOP field. \u201cI think it could be stupid\u2014it could be a stupid thing to do. But I have not made up a decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Despite his recent attacks, several of Fox\u2019s top hosts remain staunchly supportive of Trump and spent much of the week defending him following his federal indictment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A recent New York Times\/Sinea poll found 93 percent of voters who listed Fox as their primary news source do not believe Trump has committed serious crimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between Trump and Fox can be traced back most directly to the fallout from the 2020 election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>On election night 2020, Trump exploded on the network over its relatively early race call of Arizona for President Biden, a call the network stood by despite unfounded claims of voter fraud being promoted by Trump\u2019s campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, Fox agreed to pay $787 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle defamation claims brought by the company for false statements about its software made on Fox\u2019s air by Trump and his allies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Dominion lawsuit, internal communications from top Fox hosts and executives were made public showing several of them disparaging the former president and throwing cold water on his assertions about electoral fraud.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Presidential debates are typically big ratings nights for the major networks, and Trump has proven to be a unique audience driver for cable news channels for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under former network CEO Jeff Zucker, CNN experienced a boom in viewership during Trump\u2019s first run for the White House and four years in office, numbers that have fallen off sharply since.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A recent town hall featuring Trump won CNN a more than 300 percent one-night ratings boost, illustrating the former president\u2019s continued ability to drive the news cycle and draw large audiences.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Left-leaning cable outlet MSNBC this week similarly experienced a sharp uptick in viewership in primetime on Tuesday, the day Trump\u2019s latest indictment was handed down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fox, which routinely ranks as the top-watched cable news channel, has seen its ratings fall the least of the major networks in the post-Trump presidency years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hosting a debate is an elaborate and expensive undertaking for the network that is still reeling from the Dominion settlement and is looking to shape the narrative around the coming presidential race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFox News Media looks forward to hosting the first debate of the Republican presidential primary season offering viewers an unmatched opportunity to learn more about the candidates\u2019 positions on a variety of issues which is essential to the electoral process,\u201d the network said in a statement to The Hill on Friday.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ball is ultimately in Trump\u2019s court, other observers say, and speculation about what the former president will decide to do is likely premature.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe views on Trump from the Fox News enterprise and the Murdochs at this point are pretty well known. So it\u2019s really more a matter of pragmatism,\u201d one conservative media executive told The Hill. \u201cFor Trump, who knows how he\u2019ll make the decision? It\u2019ll probably be the last person he talked to or the last thing he saw on Fox News.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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