Fox News should have grief counselors readily available if Donald Trump boycotts the primary nationalized televised presidential debate subsequent month in Milwaukee.
It is the best way Boston University does it after they provide grief counselors for legislation college students upset with U.S. Supreme Court selections that don’t go their means, like pupil loans.
The Fox News grief counselors wouldn’t solely administer to Fox News executives who’re praying for Trump to point out up, but additionally for the remainder of the ten (and counting) Republicans working for president.
Fox News is co-sponsoring the occasion with the Republican National Committee. It is scheduled to happen on August 23.
Both the tv cable information community and the candidates want Trump to take part to draw viewers and to make the occasion work.
Without Trump the showman on stage with the remainder of the candidates, the talk is not going to be value watching, and everyone is aware of it. Without the showman, there isn’t a present.
Despite his troubles — two impeachments and two indictments — Trump is by far the main Republican candidate to win the GOP presidential nomination. If so, he would tackle fading President Biden in a 2024 rematch of 2020.
The extra Biden and the politicized Democrat-run U.S. Justice Department and FBI go after Trump, and canopy up Biden household wrongdoings, the extra well-liked Trump turns into.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is working second within the GOP polls, however he’s some 20 to 30 proportion factors behind Trump, whereas the remainder of the sector hardly makes an influence within the polling.
To qualify for the talk candidates should pledge to assist the eventual Republican nominee for president, present 1% in three nationwide polls, and record 200 donors in at the very least 20 states.
The guidelines set by the RNC are designed to weed out fringe candidates and forestall an unwieldy circus-like environment that came about in 2006 when Trump first appeared on the scene as a presidential candidate.
For those that make the reduce, it might be the primary time that the general public would see the surviving candidates sq. off towards one another in a nationwide setting. Of course, the one they’d most go after is Trump, the chief of the pack.
But Trump, who’s in a lover’s quarrel with Fox News, is threatening to play the spoiler and never present up, which might be a blow to Fox News.
Trump has accused the cable information community, which coated him extensively in 2016, of freezing him out of protection, ignoring his well-attended marketing campaign rallies, and siding with DeSantis.
Fox News wants Trump to take part to make the talk value watching. It is the primary televised debate within the presidential marketing campaign, a marketing campaign that guarantees to be contentious and controversial.
Without Trump, there shall be no present, and voters comprehend it.
The candidates comprehend it as properly. They want Trump on the stage as badly as Fox News does, not solely to go after him, however to play off him. Without Trump, the Republican Party is just like the New England Patriots with out Tom Brady.
Trump is up to now forward within the Republican polls that he doesn’t want anybody tugging on Superman’s cape, not to mention subjecting himself to assaults from individuals who used to work for him — Mike Pence, Nikki Haley — or wished to work for him — Chris Christie, the previous New Jersey governor.
Christie, who supported Trump prior to now, predicted final week that Trump’s “ego” is not going to allow him to shun the talk.
“If Trump doesn’t want to debate then he doesn’t want to be president,” Christie taunted.
“He can’t have a big TV show that’s he not on,” Christie advised Maureen Dowd of The New York Times.
Yes, he can.
Not solely is Trump speaking about boycotting the talk, however he’s additionally considering holding a counter-television occasion or rally on the identical time.
“Not to be braggadocious but the debate will not be a very exciting one if I’m not there,” the braggadocious Trump mentioned.
He’s proper.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”