Fox debate moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum had been preparing for two events — one if he were there and one if he wasn’t. Trump’s former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany called his decision a “huge political miscalculation” on Monday on Fox. “It’s way too soon to say that.”Trump’s first appearance in a GOP primary debate brought 24 million viewers to Fox in 2015. Yet when only 12.5 million watched a January 2016 Fox debate that Trump skipped, that gave an indication of his drawing power. The Siena College-Times survey suggests that it wouldn’t be a popular topic among regular Fox viewers.

Source: Fox News August 22, 2023 11:05 UTC