Good point, the GOP candidates were as pussy ish at first and never gained any steam and just went after each other. Christie took out Marco and himself and Cruz had no help beating up on Trump. Carson was just in the way.
The talk from the right about how weak the dem candidates are doesn’t add up when you consider Trump is holding a lot of the same baggage as Bloomberg and even worse baggage and the Dems ripped Bloomberg to pieces.
If his chicken fried heart doesn't give out beforehand, Trump doesn't stand a chance with any of the Dems at a debate, regardless of who gets the nomination. Any one of them could make Trump cry.
The debates don't matter. Hillary wiped the floor with him but cons gave him the win as he jabbed on irrelevant tangents. All they'll care about is if he's bullying is biting enough & he's good at that.
Most of Trump opponents were on the wrong side of the base... So when Trump hit them with those issues... establishment Candidates were impotent. Bannon had his pulse on the base. He shared his wisdom with Trump. Once Trump went Bannon only cruz or paul had the credibility with the massive "Bannon" base. No establishment politician had a chance once he went anti-immigration, drain the swamp and replace Obamacare and stop wasting money on stupid wars. Also... Having a big social media audience made the establishment media... much weaker. Trump could tweet and get his message out really fast... blocking the media' attempt to shape the narrative and promote his competition. As Bannon told us many times... a non establishment democrat could do the same thing. Bernie is proof. Imagine a non commie / anti establishment democrat talking about how the insiders are screwing the base with bad immigration polices and insurance company care rather than free health care... and job protection resulting in competition for employees hence dramatically higher wages from everyone from restaurant workers, to construction to tech company engineers. Then what if they promised to fix the inequality by eliminating income taxes on non .5%? Almost every working taxpay in the country is being screwed by both parties... They could be united rather easily.... unfortunately the swamp and the establishment will target that person...
Right. Clinton won every debate on substance but she stayed relatively hands off on the more salacious stuff when she should have just continuously low blowed him.