--- title: Gennifer Flowers Will Not Attend the Debate: Trump Campaign description: Donald Trump's team said Sunday that the Republican nominee does not actually want Gennifer Flowers at the presidential debate canonical: https://time.com/4506963/donald-trump-gennifer-flowers-debate/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-25T16:15:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:48:46.587Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Campaign Now Says Gennifer Flowers Will Not Attend the Debate og:description: Trump himself threatened to bring her to the debate og:url: https://time.com/4506963/donald-trump-gennifer-flowers-debate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb5cdce197224bf1/6988a7658e06017832467973/gennifer-flowers.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Gennifer Flowers og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Campaign Now Says Gennifer Flowers Will Not Attend the Debate twitter:description: Trump himself threatened to bring her to the debate twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb5cdce197224bf1/6988a7658e06017832467973/gennifer-flowers.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Campaign Now Says Gennifer Flowers Will Not Attend the Presidential Debate by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 25, 2016 4:15 PM UTC  Gennifer Flowers attends a fashion show benefit in Tarpon Springs, Fla., on Feb. 24, 2011. Gennifer Flowers attends a fashion show benefit in Tarpon Springs, Fla., on Feb. 24, 2011.Jim Damaske—AP by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 25, 2016 4:15 PM UTC Just a day after Donald Trump seemingly invited her to attend, the candidate’s team said Sunday that the Republican nominee does not actually want Gennifer Flowers, the woman who allegedly had an affair with Bill Clinton, at the presidential debate on Monday night. Trump on Saturday [threatened to bring Flowers](http://time.com/4506851/presidential-debate-gennifer-flowers/?xid=homepage) to the debate in reaction to the Hillary Clinton campaign’s decision to invite Mark Cuban. Cuban, a billionaire reality-TV star who has previously criticized Trump, will reportedly sit in the front row. Speaking on CNN Sunday morning, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway [said](http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/25/politics/presidential-debate-preview-2016/) Flowers will not attend the debate as part of the Trump campaign. “We have not invited her formally, and we do not expect her to be there as a guest of the Trump campaign,” Conway told CNN’s Jake Tapper. Appearing on Fox News, Trump’s running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence [said](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/25/pence-says-gennifer-flowers-will-not-attend-trump-clinton-debate.html) the GOP nominee’s suggestion that he would invite Flowers was just “mocking effort by Hillary Clinton and her campaign to distract voters.” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/779729180334387200) Flowers, a Trump supporter who has called Clinton an [“enabler”](http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/09/24/gennifer-flowers-hillary-clinton-enabler-encouraged-bill-whatever-women/) of her husband’s sexual conduct, [tweeted back](https://twitter.com/gennflowers/status/779764506146680832) at Trump saying she would “definitely be at the debate!” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4506963/donald-trump-gennifer-flowers-debate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4506963/donald-trump-gennifer-flowers-debate/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Campaign Now Says Gennifer Flowers Will Not Attend the Presidential Debate","datePublished":"2016-09-25T16:15:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:48:46.587Z","description":"Trump himself threatened to bring her to the debate","url":"https://time.com/4506963/donald-trump-gennifer-flowers-debate/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb5cdce197224bf1/6988a7658e06017832467973/gennifer-flowers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb5cdce197224bf1/6988a7658e06017832467973/gennifer-flowers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Gennifer Flowers","caption":"In this Feb. 24, 2011 photo, Gennifer Flowers attends a fashion show benefit in Tarpon Springs, Fla. 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