Thursday at 9 PM Eastern on Fox News, to be precise. …Annnnnd the pregame festivities should be mighty interesting. If you had asked me this afternoon I would have said that Donald Trump would be returning to the debate, but the man seems bound and determined to see if Fox News is bluffing. …I don’t think that Fox News is bluffing. CNN might have folded; they need the ratings boost more than Fox does. The Big Three networks wouldn’t have, because they dwarf the cable news networks anyway.
Be interesting to see where that goes. However, it’ll be more interesting to see a debate where I can expect to have uninterrupted policy discussions for a change. I plan to enjoy this, in fact. Savor it.
This is the Trumpian version of running out the clock. He sees he’s ahead in the polls and he has no reason to give the others a shot at him. He’ll probably sit in his room watching the debate and zinging the other candidates on twitter. If the other campaigns were smart they’d assign a bunch of bright people to their twitter accounts and go after Trump to see if they could get him to rage quit twitter. He has no real ground game so it may screw with his game plan. Also it’d be funny.
The rumor I’m hearing is that he’s going to do a televised fundraiser for the Wounded Warrior Project opposite the debate.
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We’ll see what happens. It should be entertaining.
Why would he care whether or not FOX is bluffing?
The assumption that he would, boggles the mind.
He doesn’t need them to get exposure or get his message out. (And his telling them to get bent is much more effective than being questioned by a hostile press ever would be.)
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It’s not as if this sort of gamesmanship is new. Reagan blew off the last debate before the primaries. There was much clutching of pearls by the press, because it lessened their power.
But it only strengthened Reagan.
Will it be policy focused or will it be “Trump said this. What do you say?” over and over and over again?
My money’s on the latter.
But wasn’t mean enough to dash Moe’s hopes.
“uninterrupted policy discussions ”
Moe, this is a Republican debate. All that will happen is the moderators will attack the other candidates instead of Trump.