Steve Schmidt explains who benefits most from Donald Trump skipping Republican debate

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Steve Schmidt breaks down the decision by Donald Trump to skip the Republican debate on Wednesday, instead choosing to sit down with Tucker Carlson. Steve explains how this is an opportunity for Chris Christie and Tim Scott to prove they are viable contenders for the nomination, as opposed to Ron DeSantis. To become a The Warning Premium Member with access to premium content visit: https://thewarning.supercast.com/ Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/

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0:00.0	Donald Trump, the twice impeached, disgraced former president of the United States and accused
0:10.2	felon, will be a no-show in Milwaukee for the Fox News moderated debate by Brett Baer and
0:17.5	Martha McCallum. Before going further, Brett Bear is a major player in this moment of
0:24.6	national tragedy. It was Brett Bear who was on the Fox Anchor Desk on election night. It was his
0:32.4	job to inform, to tell the American people who were tuned in to a cable news station that calls itself
0:40.8	fair and balanced what reality was, what the truth was. The reality was the audience had been
0:49.1	conditioned by Election Day, and Brett Baer knew it. He knew they didn't want to hear the truth.
0:57.2	He knew there was risk for informing them about reality.
1:04.0	Tucker Carlson understood the risk as well.
1:07.7	So it's important to understand.
1:10.1	There's no difference and no difference of moral standing between Tucker Carlson, who will be with Donald Trump, and Brett Baer, who will be with the Republican candidates who seek to dethrone Donald Trump.
1:25.3	Donald Trump isn't coming to the debate, and the debate will still be about Donald Trump.
1:32.1	It will give his opponents an opportunity to show their medal, to show their character,
1:38.8	who is and who is not terrified of the coming mean tweet after the debate and just exactly how delusional
1:47.6	is Vivek Ramoswamy. All of these questions and then some will be answered in the Milwaukee
1:54.9	debate. One of the most unifying issues at this moment in American life is this.
2:03.4	The American people, Democrats, independents, Republicans, do not want to see Donald Trump
2:12.0	returned to power.
2:13.0	They do not want to see the MAGA retribution fantasies come to life in another presidential
2:20.4	term.
2:21.3	They want to move on.
2:23.3	We want something better.
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