I think everyone underestimates Trump. Trump has cut his teeth on competing with vipers in the New York developer market. He has done it over 3 decades. Trump is a man who has a very strong sense of purpose and he studies his competition. That the other candidates are going to somehow goad him into the open so they can savage him is totally, totally naïve.
To Trump this is no more than knocking his competition out one by one the way he is used to doing when competing for a development project. The candidates have no idea what they are up against.
Great comment GilGil. On the same track I like how Trump is informed when he talks to the press. He reads conservative media for sure. Most of the others don’t seem to and it makes them really out of touch with us and IN touch with dems.
One thing, among many, that Trump has shown us is that even our best politicians pale in comparison to a successful person from private industry.
Trump is right, we have incompetent politicians.
They had a brief segment on Fox and Friends earlier this morning (Sunday) re debate prep and that some of the candidates even have stand ins for the other 9 candidates. Apparently, the Jebster is doing a lot of prepping, Cruz is doing some prep and Trump isn’t doing any. Some may look at this as Trump being arrogant as he thinks he doesn’t need to prep; however, as you mentioned in your post, he has had many years of dealing in the NY development market and studies his competition (he’s also mentioned that he’s dealt with the Chinese and others around the world). I also think he speaks more off the cuff, so to speak, than any other candidate, except perhaps Sen. Cruz, who IMHO always gives thoughtful, articulate responses. I think the other candidates have their talking points.
They also mentioned on FNC that each candidate was only going to have about 10 minutes, so they’re working on getting their talking points and responses down so they can get their points across.