Posted on 01/27/2016 8:21:05 PM PST by Helicondelta
Tomorrow night, Republican front-runner Donald Trump might become the first presidential candidate ever to win a debate he didn't show up for. The other candidates will show up like they're supposed to, and they'll stand at their podiums answering questions. Some opinion writers will spin theories like, "Trump doesn't really want to win" or "This will be what finally does Trump in."
Some anti-Trump Republicans will believe this is the other candidates' chance to shine. They'll talk about their first-month-in-office goals. They'll talk about their policies and tax plans. Nobody will mention that Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are on the ends because they barely got in, but there may be some old-school prepackaged zingers. Someone will unleash one of those zingers and think it will make a great sound bite for the media to play over and over. He won't understand that "the zinger" is a dead art; a relic for future archaeologists. They'll dust it off and discover Trump's teeth marks on it.
Trump won't miss making news by skipping the debate. Trump is the news. I wrote last week in The Hill that the Republican Party and the media don't pull Trump's strings; he pulls theirs. This is what I meant. This is Trump pulling the media's strings. After the debate, the big story isn't going to be what former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio argued civilly about or whose flat tax proposal The Wall Street Journal likes best.
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I think that Trump may of sprang a trap on ted cruse or thinks he has and Cruise may of fallen for it.Cruse just Offered to debate trump with 1,5000,000 going to a veterans charity and Carly offered to bump it up to 2,000,000. if she could debate him also trump takes them up on the offer before tomorrows debate and only give them 1 hour notice that in a week he will debate them he has and then puts up his own money along with cruse and Carly I think that it turns into a win for trump.
of course Cruise is the best debater up there and if he were to get Trump in a one on one there is a good chance he would just kill trump in a debate with only the two of them.
If Beck can swear in Cruz, then why not?
I also heard that Ronald Reagan skipped the last debate.
If Cruz is such a stand up guy , why doesnt he take the high road and say “Look , Trumps been bashing me but you know what?....FOX was going to ambush him with three douchebags off Youtube...I just want to mention , thats despicable.â€
I see Fox/Google didn’t invite a laid off Disney H-1B casualty. I know Cruz won’t be mentioning that but another candidate should.
Personally, I think he should have gone to the debate.
But, I don’t his not going will have little impact on his standing in the IA caucus and beyond.
Actually, 6 “debates” are more than enough. The last one only had 11 million viewers. This one, even with Trump, probably would have had 10 million or less. Now, without Trump, viewership could drop to 6 or 7 million, because a lot of people who would have watched the debate will tune in his veterans event.
Mohammed Ali didn’t offer fights to every guy punching a heavy bag in the local boxing gym. You’re the heavy weight champion. You’ve beat the lightweights six times by knockouts. No more rematches. Trump was nice to give them five rematches.
GO TRUMP
Sounds like Cruz and Fiorina are treating Trump like he’s a Celebrity they’re trying to pay to be seen with, not like the deadly serious candidate that he is.
Maybe.
However acting ‘out of the box’ leads to results ‘out of the box’. The campaign mutates.
But I think people are tired of the useless debates the RNC and the media gave us anyway and agree with the author.
Trump, you magnificent bassterd! I colored your book and stayed inside the lines, most of the time.
Oh yes it’s all about advertising rates and WINNING BIG. Then if he wins he might think about how to find out “what’s going on”. And maybe what to do about it. But whatever is done will be the BEST MOST MARVELOUS WINNING THAT HAS EVER BEEN DONE. Give me a break.
Trump is doing the right thing by not backing down to the MM.
Trump is not afraid to fight, and he doesn’t care who he fights, HE has more Backbone than anyone I’ve seen in Washington DC in a long, long, time!
Keep Going Donald Trump! You will make it!
SCREW YOU; -— Fox News! Take your Bimbo Twitt; M. Kelly with YOU! I’ll be laughing when TV LAND passes you in the ratings.
great article....check and mate....Donald Trump wins!
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I predict that any online poll that asks “who won the debate” and has Donald Trump as a possible answer will have Donald Trump winning the debate even though he wasn’t there. A lot of minds are made up.
These stupid pundits haven’t gotten Trump or anything else right so far. Why should I start believing them now? No thanks.
Good article, thanks.
Actually, 6 “debates†are more than enough. The last one only had 11 million viewers. This one, even with Trump, probably would have had 10 million or less. Now, without Trump, viewership could drop to 6 or 7 million, because a lot of people who would have watched the debate will tune in his veterans event.
And Trump comes out the winner because the first debate on FOX had 24 million viewers. He can point and say...see I wasn’t there and the debate dropped to six million...He won.
Limbaugh referenced today that he heard ad rates for debate went from $750K to $150K.
That he will :)
I was thinking the same thing. Those debates are getting boring. Too many of tem to have any impact anymore.
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