C) He’ll be good and there will be a big audience.
Neither you nor I know the ratings Fox will get.
Ratings are already way down. The first Fox debate had 24 million. The last FoxBiz debate had 11 million. FoxBiz obviously is in less households. But Fox probably could’ve expected around 16 million for this one. Trump polls around 40% nationally, so if they got a 40% reduction they’d get about 10 million. I suspect not every pro-Trump person will not watch, because some of them no doubt like watching debates, so they’ll still get around 12-13 million.
The Democrat debate just got 10 million, so this isn’t going to be below that when it’s broadcast on a channel everyone gets.
If a Cruz talks on Fox and nobody sees, does he make a sound ....?