It appears that he is going to follow through with his boycott threat. How will that impact the debate?
There is a school of thought that the other candidates will focus their fire on Cruz. With the exception of Rubio, I don’t think that is true; there will be plenty of Trump bashing, and most of the rest of the disputes will be contained within the establishment lane (i.e., Christie v. Rubio and Bush v. Rubio). The return of Rand Paul also means that there will be lively exchanges pitting him against most of the rest of the field on foreign policy.
I would like to see Cruz and Rubio discuss the merits of their very different tax plans. We’ll see if the moderators oblige me.