I will go ahead and predict that IF Donald Trump is kept out of the debates, then he will go 3rd party.
He’ll go third party AND get more votes than the eventual nominee. Who won’t be Cruz.
Trump’s third party threat was made to keep the RNC honest and playing fair with him. Screwing him out of the debates is the antithesis of both honesty and fair play.
This won’t work out as the folks who are plotting it think it will ...
I think that’s a fair prediction if he doesn’t get the nomination (which he probably won’t) but he won’t go 3rd party immediately. He will run all the way up to at least the Iowa cucuses if not to Super Tuesday. That’s assuming he doesn’t flame out because of some supremely asinine thing he does or says. Which he probably will. That’s MY personal prediction.
Actually, the plan all along has third party written all over it and VOILA! President Hillary!
Actually, knowing Trump as we do now, getting banned from the debate would give him even more airtime...watch him turn that back in them, stay in the Party and still beat them.