{"id":5080,"date":"2023-08-21T21:50:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T21:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5080"},"modified":"2023-08-21T22:34:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T22:34:43","slug":"brian-schimming-trumpless-milwaukee-debate-still-about-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5080","title":{"rendered":"Brian Schimming: Trumpless Milwaukee Debate Still About Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-gop-boss-trumpless-milwaukee-debate-still-about-trump\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-gop-boss-trumpless-milwaukee-debate-still-about-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Collage-Maker-21-Aug-2023-04-47-PM-7080.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Milwaukee Debate\" title=\"Milwaukee Debate\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mechanics of the Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee will be different without Donald Trump, but the theme won\u2019t change.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Brian Schimming told News Talk 1130\u2019s Jay Weber the Trumpless Milwaukee debate will still focus on the former president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though he\u2019s out, he\u2019s in,\u201d Schimming said Monday morning. \u201cHe\u2019s going to be a topic of conversation whether he\u2019s there or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social he will not be in Milwaukee on Wednesday for the debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public knows who I am &amp; what a successful presidency I had, with Energy Independence, Strong Borders &amp; Military, Biggest EVER Tax &amp; Regulation Cuts, No Inflation, Strongest Economy in History, &amp; much more,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cI WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schimming said, as state chairman, he\u2019d rather have Trump on the debate stage. But he also said not having Trump will give Republican voters in Wisconsin and across the country a chance to see the other candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat people will be looking for is, number one, how they react to him not being there,\u201d Schimming said. \u201cAnd number two, is how they react to these candidates and how they shape up compared to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former President Trump has a massive lead in the polls. The latest CBS News polls from Sunday gives Trump 62% of the Republican vote, compared to 16% for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and 7% for Vivek Ramaswamy. The rest of the Republican field is all at 5% or less.<\/p>\n<p>Trump cited his lead in the polls as his reason for skipping the debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew CBS POLL, just out, has me leading the field by \u2018legendary\u2019 numbers,\u201d Trump said in his Truth post.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s campaign has a different take on Trump\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, Donald Trump wants to avoid appearing in Wisconsin because he knows Wisconsin is a state that illustrates his failed leadership,\u201d Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said in a statement. \u201cJust this week, Foxconn announced another move out of the state. Wisconsinites soundly rejected his ongoing efforts to ban abortion in the state\u2019s Supreme Court election earlier this year. He cannot hide from the fact that Wisconsinites rejected him in 2020 and will reject the MAGA agenda again in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-gop-boss-trumpless-milwaukee-debate-still-about-trump\/ The mechanics of the Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":5082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}