Why does Trump have to debate the moderators?

[Renew Deal]

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

1. It's becoming clear that this isn't a debate at all

It's "dump on Trump" night on Fox. The moderators, Rubio and Cruz are all spending their time trying to squash him.


Not that I'm complaining...

[metroins]

2. For real

Total dump on Trump night.

Look the guy's nuts but it is very unfair.

[Wednesdays]

4. It will backfire because now it's "The Donald Trump Show"

nt

[840high]

10. Thius will draw more people to him.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. Collusion

And there we obviously collusion between FOX, the Rubio team, and the Cruz team to all hit the same talking points.

As vile as Trump is, Cruz is worse. And Trump will get trounced in the GE.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

13. I don't know

Trump and Cruz scare me equally, just in different ways.

[spanone]

3. perhaps the gop will take fox down with them....

[flamingdem]

6. fingers crossed!

Donald might be our man for that. We'll see soon enough.

[spanone]

8. the trump-ites are probably foxbots...this must be confusing to their little heads

[Lodestar]

14. Well, if you tuned into Fox's follow up to the debate

they are defending Trump and think the GOP is dead regardless of what they do.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

[annabanana]

5. Oh my. . GO THIRD PARTY!!

unfair unfair unfair!

[flamingdem]

7. He can't right? "Sore Loser" laws prevent this

I think.

[herding cats]

16. He threatened it again today, didn't he?

I know he signed the "pledge" last Fall, but that has pretty much zero teeth from what I read then.

Honestly, I think at this stage in the game he might still be able to branch off and go independent agent. It's not as if the convention has taken place or anything.

[flamingdem]

17. Well, let's hope so!

That would be grand though a lot of righties would go to the polls with 2 republicans running.

[herding cats]

18. I'm not sure he could get on most ballets at this point.

But, that's irrelevant. If he even ran a write in campaign it would guarantee our nominee would win. It could effect our down ticket, but it's more effort to pick and choose vs. voting straight party, which would be a help.

Then there's the fact Trump voters if he ran third-party would be much less likely to support the establishment candidates.

I'm not saying he will, but I do expect some sort of epic tantrum after tonight. They were brutal to him!

[lame54]

21. Trump could beat any of these guys as a write-in

[noretreatnosurrender]

9. Because

Fox news is with the establishment just like the other channels. Evidently they don't realize a lot of the people who support Trump are doing so because they HATE the establishment. A guy I work with didn't start out as a Trump supporter but he's flaming mad at the way the Republicans have been trying to stop the voters from voting for Trump. He's also mad at the Republicans for what they are doing with Obama's Supreme Ct. nominee. A lot of eyes are opening in this country about what is happening and they are opening on both sides of the aisle.

[840high]

11. Yes. On both sides.

[Lodestar]

15. Basically anti-establishment all the way around. Thing is that the real power

in this country would like nothing better than to destroy the government. In that
sense it's kind of like what they're doing to the Middle East...tearing things down
and leaving chaos in their wake. And who will be there to fill the power vacuum?
The true 1%...

[noretreatnosurrender]

19. I agree

which is why this election is so important. We have got to try to peacefully change what's wrong so that we can try to prevent a violent uprising that may lead to what you mentioned.

[Eleanors38]

20. Actually, the moderators have to debate tRump: Ratings.