He’s probably right — a Trump-less GOP presidential primary wouldn’t be nearly as exciting!

In a recent interview, Mr. Trump offered a vainglorious pre-obituary of sorts for his candidacy, should he ever end it (for which he insists he has no plans).
“There’d be a major collapse of the race, and there’d be a major collapse of television ratings,” he said from his office in Trump Tower. “It would become a depression in television.”
Mr. Trump said that a presidential campaign without him would become so “boring” that he would struggle to pay any attention to it.
“I wouldn’t even be watching it probably, and neither would anybody else,” he said.

The question is… why is the GOP front-runner talking about what will happen if he leaves the race? I suppose he’s just answering the questions he’s asked.

Still, yesterday on Meet the Press, Trump said, ”If I were doing poorly, if I saw myself going down, if you would stop calling me because you no longer have any interest in Trump because ‘he has no chance,’ I’d go back to my business. I have no problem with that.”

Most candidates would never discuss the circumstances that would get them to leave the race — perhaps out of stubbornness or superstition that to acknowledge the possibility of failure is to permit the possibility. Trump has broken every other rule and bit of conventional wisdom in campaigning, so why stop now?