[Zenjitsuman]

Ya never know. Fox may decide to toss Cruz softballs all night to try to make him look better than Trump.

Fux VP Sammon has his daughter working for Rubio, so that is why Rubio got softball questions last fux debate.

I think Cruz is unfortunately in the crosshairs at the debate.

[Kit cat]

Never happen they NEED Cruz out of the way so their boy Rubio moves up!!!

[skeeter]

I’m sure as long as the moderators are fair, i.e. prevent someone like Rubio dumping a load of unassociated and discredited opposition research items on Cruz’s head as the buzzer sounds, then disallow the time it would take to refute each, he’ll do just fine.

[sphinx]

The frontrunner is always in the crosshairs. Cruz will be the nominal leader among those who are present. They will direct most of their fire at him. All of them will take shots at Trump as well, but that is hard to sustain when he's not there.

The reason Trump dodged is simply that he is intemperate and therefore at risk at any given time of committing the gaffe that finally breaks through, alienates a block of supporters, and consolidates the "anybody but Trump" faction. Trumpsters may think he is immune to this, but they are probably wrong. Trump is smart enough to know this, despite his blustering about being able to shoot someone and not pay a penalty. A debate is a high risk environment for The Donald.