How are Trump’s debating skills going to crush Cruz? Trump has never debated before - he admits that. I assume he will just fly by the seat of his pants in the debates. He, to my knowledge, isn’t even honing debate skills. It will be interesting!!
Cruz has all the technical debating skills down cold, skills that win in cold hard ‘facts only’ situations. Donald’s skills aren’t technical, but they’re persuasive to general audiences.
He’s loud, boisterous, domineering, in generally a friendly way for everyone except his target.
His target gets hit with the entire blast. Those are skills that Cruz doesn’t have, and those are the skills that will overshadow Cruz.