I love how the political class thinks this is a bad move by Trump.
What will actually happen?
1) Trump will ride this wave of publicity through the Iowa Caucuses.
2) Trump will compare Fox’s first debate ratings (roughly 25 million) to this debate, which even if Trump was there would have been 14 million or so. and go with the line, I am not there, the ratings tank.
3) Trump’s supporters won’t care.
4) Iowans won’t care as this is the seventh debate of the cycle.
Trump knows he has nothing to lose here, plus he shows Independents that he’s not taking crap from Conservative-bastion Fox.
Murdoch worth more than Trump. It’s a cage match. Am lovin’ it.
Also Rubio and Cruz will try to knock the other out.
As they will have more time to do so.
I’m no Trump supporter, but I’m with you on this one. It’s highly unprofessional of Fox News management to get into a pissing contest with a candidate. I’ll wager that the “moderators” encourage the remaining participants to gang up on Trump. How they respond and how they deal with the defender of Islam that they’re bringing in to ambush the candidates will be pretty telling.
FOXy News a bastion of conservatism? Nyet...
It's a gamble, but he hasn't lost many gambles in the past. The sentence fragment I've copied above shows that you are a better political analyst than most TV professionals.
It is spot on. Brilliant general election move.
So Trump is strutting his anti-conservative position?