[Charles Henrickson]

Sometimes a basketball team with a lead will "let the air out of the ball" in the closing minutes, stalling to try to hold onto their lead. Or a football team will go into a "prevent defense" for the same reason. But it can backfire on them, and the other team can take advantage of it and pull out the win.

It seems that sort of "prevent defense" is what Donald Ducked is doing by ducking out of the last debate. He's trying to protect what he perceives as a lead, and he doesn't want the risk of being exposed for the vacuous empty-suit blowhard he is.

[jjsheridan5]

...and he doesn't want the risk of being exposed for the vacuous empty-suit blowhard he is.

You may want to follow his lead, and stop posting. He would have won this last debate, like he won all of the others. But Fox had clearly indicated that they were willing to go way beyond normal media bias, and turn the debate into even more of a farce than usual. Trump has taken a stand, a stand that Republicans should have taken a long time ago, against this kind of nonsense. And idiot posters just can't handle that Trump is, once again, leading and winning.

You can pretend all you want that Trump is scared, or in some kind of "prevent defense", or whatever fantasy helps you sleep at night. But you are fooling nobody, except, perhaps, yourself.

[TBP]

Maybe we should refer to him as Donald Duck.

[SeaHawkFan]

I think Trump has inside polling that shows him losing to Cruz in Iowa and he decided to not show up so he can later claim FNC’s unfairness cost him a victory.

Cruz has a great ground game, and Trump does not. If the weather is bad, the Cruz people will show up in bigger numbers than Trump's. Showing up to a free performance is much different than making an effort to discuss the candidates in person. Besides, the Trump female supporters will be staying home to watch “The Bachelorette”, or is it “The Bachelor"?