Breaking: Trump Plans to Skip First GOP Debate, Sit for Tucker Carlson Interview Instead: Report

Former president Donald Trump plans to skip the first Republican primary debate on Wednesday and will instead sit for an interview with Tucker Carlson.

The debate night plan, first reported by the New York Times, was finalized in recent days after Trump spent weeks crowd testing the question with campaign crowds and waffling on the topic in private discussions with advisers.

The exact timing of the Tucker Carlson interview is still up in the air, but if the sit-down streams live on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, during the debate time slot, it could simultaneously strike a blow against Fox and diminish Trump’s Republican primary opponents, all of whom are currently running well behind the frontrunner.

"Reagan didn't do it, and neither did others. People know my Record, one of the BEST EVER, so why would I Debate?" Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday.

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