And who is getting the airtime and talk and attention last night, tonight, and tomorrow...without spending a penny...Trump. Who gets the audience FNC loses tomorrow night....CNN. Who will be discussed at the debate whether he is there or not....Trump. I can't think of one line that any candidate can say that would make him the winner over an absent Trump. They might as well put his photo on a podium and pretend that he is there. After all, he theoretically won debates where he hardly said a word! They keep looking for the meltdown moment. If he was being set-up with Muslim interrogators in the wings, a plan to escort him off the stage, and thought that the questions he got were going to be gotcha versus questions that creepy Cruz would get, who can blame him from avoiding an obvious set-up.
And maybe Newt shouldn't have accepted the he-said, she-said divorce gotcha questions and maybe Romney should have told Candy Crawley to not interrupt when she corrected his facts during a debate response.
Whatever happens to Trump, FNC is going to lose some viewship and money...a cautionary tale to other high-dollar media.