Bad tactic by Sen. Cruz. He should be a more sophisticated campaigner than to take that approach. Sen. Cruz can't really believe that Trump is actually scared of Ms. Kelly, so he loses credibility. At the moment Trump could be outmaneuvering the rest of his competition with a bold gambit. He's certainly re-defining the relationship between the press and candidates and politicians, something which is long overdue. And Sen. Cruz has to be smart enough to see that.
If Trump's scheme succeeds, he will have drastically reduced the power of the media against him for the rest of the campaign and possibly even the next presidency. If he skips the debate and his poll numbers hold up the rest of the candidates are going to look like they are in a race for second place.
Trump can show himself watching their debate and say "I watched it to see who might make a good Vice President."
Cruz went on to say that Trump is really scared of debating him, but hiding behind his Kelly excuse.
He challenged Trump to come out of hiding behind Twitter
BOOM!