Wait, I thought Trump was the master dealer? That everyone loves him and hates Cruz, because Cruz sticks to his positions (and is "just a nasty person"), but Trump knows how to get deals done?
Why couldn't the dealmaster make this deal?
I am reminded of a line by a piece of eye-candy in the Game of Thrones teevee show, "It is known..." backed by some unsupported statement. IOW, I think your premises lack support.
1. Everyone doesn't love Trump. He is not at all lovable in my estimation. Well, except for the women who base their vote on high-status men who give them a thrill. I would include Megyn Kelly in that camp, from the video I saw of the earlier debate. The chick digs Trump.
2. The cohort that supports Trump for GOP POTUS candidate has a lot of overlap with the cohort of Cruz supporters. I think Trump supporters are more likely to despise Bush and/or Rubio and think of Cruz and their #2 pick. Main exception is the heretofore politically uninvolved folk Trump is supposedly bringing on-line.
3. From what I have seen of Trump, the "deal" is not any particular debate, but the office of POTUS and the power that brings. If Trump can manage to slap Fox silly and come out on top, that is superior (for Trump's objectives) to some sort of knuckling under and/or negotiation where he shows up at the debate. For my own part, I think the Trump's Fox debate "controversy" is, uh,
contrived. I think Trump is beating on Fox for reasons other than Megyn Kelly being a moderator and having the hots for Trump. More likely he expects to see Fox ratings dip and Trump will claim victory.
Wow. I almost coughed up a lung laughing at that.
The italicized portion is the part that always amuses me about the Trump supporters. It's not enough to think their candidate is superior, even the most conservative candidate we've had since Reagan is an establishment hack and idiot.
The idiot part is particularly amusing to me. Cruz is the most intelligent candidate for president we've had in at least a generation.
I agree that Cruz is the smartest candidate to run in a good long while. I made that point in detail elsewhere. Sadly, he has the charisma of the AV/Math geek know-it-all rather than student body president or homecoming king. Or Trump.
That he is an establishment hack is pretty near undeniable, given his wife's employer (Goldman Sachs) and the gorilla-sized loan G-S fronted them. G-S owns them.