Not only did Trump somehow win a debate he didn’t go to, instead he had an event where the ‘08 and ‘12 Iowa caucus winners - Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum - gave auxiliary speeches from a lectern bearing his name.

As, in the language of political stagecraft, endorsers do. With nothing to gain and everyone coming for him, he somehow left everyone bruised and in his debt by running away and tricking HIS OWN OPPONENTS into endorsing him.

Unreal.