My city is hosting that debate (and the convention next year). As much as I really, really don’t want Trump to be here, it would be funny if they were the only two in the debate and the moderator considers Trump not showing up to be a forfeit and declares DeSantis the winner by default.
I’d love to see Trump spin out of control trying to explain that HE should be the default winner because he’s X points ahead and would have won anyway, ya know, because of his superior debating skills.
That will never happen. If Trump doesn’t show, the “debate” just gets postponed with either a stupid explanation or no explanation at all.
I’m not saying that. I’m saying many or most Republicans would say that. Like. the opposite of a “Never Trumper”. A “Never a Dem” or some such.
Really doubt it. The RNC Chair is Ronna McDaniel, a fervent Trumpette who’s carried his water for years.
She certainly doesn’t want a debate. She knows what could happen. She wants a coronation.
If for some reason there has to be a debate, she wants a large crowd that Trump can browbeat, just like in 2016. And she wants them all to grovel by kneeling and pledging fealty to the King. The more the better.
Understood. I don’t understand why this doesn’t cause a disruptive paradox that, I dunno, makes the universe implode or something.