Personally I think Trump after the CNN debate needs to annouonce he is not going to participate in any more debates as its all been said and he has speeches to give and voters to meet. He is just giving his second tier contenders a platform to attack him in the debates. If he pulls out who will even watch the other 6 debates? We are done after the one on WEd. I have no further motivation to listen to the same drivel over and over.
Absolutely.
Trump does not need this crap and frankly only masochists will enjoy it.
The sole purpose of these debates is out of Alinsky 101, a strategy to frame the debate to splinter the conservative primary voters among themselves.
The GOP is in on it, or it would have stopped a long, long time ago, but this is what it takes to get the Establishment candidate through the primaries to the nomination.
It only works if we let it work. Are we going to fall for it again? That’s the question. It’s really up to us.
“Personally I think Trump after the CNN debate needs to annouonce he is not going to participate in any more debates as its all been said and he has speeches to give and voters to meet. He is just giving his second tier contenders a platform to attack him in the debates.”
I disagree.
If Donald Trump did what you suggest, I would hope that the other candidates would place an empty chair on stage with a sign that says TRUMP.
I’ve always found it annoying when incumbent politicians refuse to debate their challengers because they’re too afraid to defend their record. In your scenario, it would be the reverse. The challanger (Trump) would be seen as not wanting to defend his record against other, more established, candidates.
Debates are good for candidates. It forces them to sharpen their message and contemplate different issues. Trump needs to continue to use the debates to his adavantage (IMO).