The main thing that everyone needs to keep in mind is that no debate will ever change the fact that Trump will not be beholden to anyone but the voters, and anyone else who might win the nomination (for EITHER party) will essentially be owned by the rich and powerful individuals and organizations who raise the thousands of millions of dollars of the necessary campaign “contributions”.
That is why the big-money power brokers are in such a quandary. Ordinarily, they simply buy whomever looks to be most likely to win, but Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, so all they can do at that point is either attack Trump, “contribute” to losers (which is pretty pointless), or pull out of the game (which again is pointless). Therefore, the only rational option for the rich and powerful who are used to buying up all the necessary politicians is to take out Trump. They have no other choice.
“The main thing that everyone needs to keep in mind is that no debate will ever change the fact that Trump will not be beholden to anyone but the voters”
What makes you believe that any candidate will be beholden to voters? Once you elect them, they have 2/4 years to do anything they like.
That is why it is existential to put people of principle, whom you have reason to believe you can trust, into power and why the utter stupidity of pragmatic/lesser evil voting has destroyed the GOP and this country.
>> Trump doesn’t need nor want their money <<
I don’t think that’s correct. As I recall, Trump has said he’d commit up to 100 million of his own funds. But a national run for POTUS is likely to cost a billion or more.
And don’t tell me he’s worth eight billion. That figure is not accepted by hard-nosed financial analysts, because it assumes that the mystical Trump “brand” is worth about six billion all by itself. His actual assets appear to be around 2.5 billion, almost all tied up in non-liquid real estate. His free cash reserves have been estimated at anywhere from 50 to 200 million.
(And if you think he’s going to mortgage his real estate to finance a risky POTUS campaign, you may want to enter the bidding for that well-known bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn.)