Never underestimate your opponents. Especially those that have a fanatical will to win at any cost as CNN clearly does.
The stakes are too high to blithely walk into a staged ambush.
Like all Republicans, Trump underestimates the lengths the Left will go to get what they want.
Heck, it wouldn't surprise me to see the FBI come on stage and haul off Trump in the middle of the debate. Crazy? Maybe not far off.
The Right defers to the Left at the point of acquiescence - hence the disease of RINO’s in the GOP.
The GOP always loses to the Left whereas Trump beats the left like a drum. His only loss was to monumental fraud in 2020. I don’t look for that to happen on 2024.
You’re too carful about the Left. They are losers, just don’t know it yet.