Saw comments from ordinary watchers on twitter last night that the debate seemed more focused, serious and on point than previous debates this cycle. If that thought prevailed I would think it would hurt Trump’s standing.
Well if Trump were there, you can bet the moderators and their agenda would have made the debate a lot less focused, serious, and on point. Of course if we got to actually have conservative moderators the debate would actually be serious.
Is that why Cruz threatened to leave??? I DID see a short bit when Cruz told the moderators if they didn’t get to ISSUES and stop with the attacks and trying to get the candidates to attack he was leaving...
That thought did prevail. It was a better debate without Trump there.
Several commentators on Fox mentioned it and the debate thread participants noticed it also.