{"id":876,"date":"2023-08-24T05:36:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T05:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/top-four-takeaways-from-trumps-exclusive-interview-with-tucker-carlson\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T05:36:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T05:36:44","slug":"top-four-takeaways-from-trumps-exclusive-interview-with-tucker-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/top-four-takeaways-from-trumps-exclusive-interview-with-tucker-carlson\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Four Takeaways from Trump&#8217;s Exclusive Interview with Tucker Carlson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"article-byline has-tools\">\n<div class=\"article-tools\"><a href=\"#cp-talk\" class=\"has-number talk-cp-255218\" data-scrollto=\".viafoura\" aria-label=\"Go to comments\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/chat-rect.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><span class=\"number\"\/><\/a><a href=\"\" class=\"js-share\" aria-label=\"Share\" id=\"share-btn\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/share-outline.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"img-box align-center center\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><picture width=\"760\" height=\"421\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/15\/00\/150085_w_760_421.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/15\/00\/150085_w_760_421.png\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" width=\"760\" height=\"421\"\/><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\"><span class=\"photo-des\">Tucker Carlson interviews former President Donald Trump at Trump National Golf Course Bedminster in New Jersey, Aug. 24, 2023. <\/span> | <span class=\"credit\">Screengrab: X\/Tucker Carlson<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Instead of participating in the first Republican presidential primary debate on Fox News Wednesday night, former President Donald Trump sat down with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson for a pre-recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1694513603251241143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion<\/a> on several topics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Posted to the social media platform X at the same time the debate began, the conversation amassed nearly 100 million views in just over 3.5 hours after it was posted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2024\/president\/us\/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RealClearPolitics average<\/a> of polls measuring the preferences of Republican primary voters based on surveys taken between Aug. 10 and 21, Trump has the support of 55.4% of Republican primary voters. His closest rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has 14.3% support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump cited his <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/110924112193729328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">significant polling lead <\/a>as the justification for not participating in the debates.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he discussed his Republican primary rivals, plans for a second term if elected president and elaborated on why he chose not to participate in the debate.<\/p>\n<p>The following pages highlight four interesting moments from Trump&#8217;s conversation with Carlson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"article_credit\">\n<p>Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/mailto:ryan.foley@christianpost.com\">ryan.foley@christianpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"eoa_freedom_post\">\n<h2><span>Free<\/span> Religious Freedom Updates<\/h2>\n<p>Join thousands of others to get the <strong>FREEDOM POST<\/strong> newsletter for free, sent twice a week from The Christian Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/4-highlights-from-trumps-interview-with-tucker-carlson.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker Carlson interviews former President Donald Trump at Trump National Golf Course Bedminster in New Jersey, Aug. 24, 2023. | Screengrab: X\/Tucker Carlson Instead of participating in the first Republican presidential primary debate on Fox News Wednesday night, former President Donald Trump sat down with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson for a pre-recorded discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}