Can’t really project something which already happened.
To say they were filled with ideas and debated well means you have no standards. Ya see, those debates were all about rolling back and undoing all 8 yrs of Obama. Insults and lies by the dozens from Cruz to trump to Rubio to Carson to Giuliani. An unbelievable field of bickerers and morons. Bush the initial front runner was laughed at by the other candidates and drummed out and yet other than kasich was the only steady voice of the collection. And you knuckleheads voted for the novelty celebrity faux mob boss. The false billionaire whose wealth came from his father. Trump the blowhard xenophobe adulterer, assaulter of women an incurious man of zero intellect. He’s your guy.
Not one of the R candidates speak as well as any of these remaining D candidates and none had comprehensive ideas and visions - a platform for the nation whether doable or not. They just brought their egos