How Do You Win a Debate for Losers?

“On Wednesday evening, four long-shot Republican candidates will step onstage and into one of the weirdest — and most difficult — moments in the history of presidential debates,” the Washington Post reports.

“There will be no way for them to confront the front-runner face to face, the usual tactic of an underdog. Donald Trump won’t even appear until after they’re finished, to face 10 other candidates in the night’s main event. For these four long shots, there will also be little point in confronting one another.”

“The strongest of them, former senator Rick Santorum, has been polling at 0.8 percent, according to CNN’s most recent average of major polls. If one of the others somehow swiped all of his support, that candidate would be at less than 1.5 percent.”