Please please..someone bring out an empty chair for Trump on stage

[nadine_mn]

Of course it would be front and center and the candidates could debate it ala Clint Eastwood.

That would be the best thing of the campaign season.

[valerief]

1. He might do it just for the theatrics of it. nt

[frizzled]

2. How about a blow up doll in a suit with a huge wig?

Actually that might backfire: it'd have far more sense than The Donald and might get him more votes.

[pinboy3niner]

3. No empty podium says Fox News

The network confirmed that it won't have an additional lectern. “There will be no empty podiums just as we didn't do an empty podium with Rand Paul when he boycotted the FOX Business Network debate two weeks ago,” a Fox News spokesperson said in a statement.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/gop-debate-no-empty-lecturn-trump-218291

[nadine_mn]

4. Jeb Bush should just whip out a hand puppet of Trump then

Not like he could do any worse in the polls

[KamaAina]

5. Or one with an Amazonian flannel moth caterpillar in it

[nadine_mn]

6. Oh that would be good too - anything would make it watchable

other than the actual candidates