Is Trump really going to make the next two debates?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

He has no choice but to do the debates. He will be seen as a coward if he backs out

1) Trump can spin reality into anything in his own mind. Give him a chance, and he'll be the heroic standard-bearer of freedom by not going.

2) He can always bail completely, not just on the debates, but the nomination as well.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Yes he will. He has to. Maybe he'll start studying and do better next time.

Do what Hillary took time out to do.

When you reject facts and history and the public record like Trump does, "studying" is rather difficult.

It would also mean admitting he was wrong.

More likely is that he'll take a page from the "conservative" wing of the GOP and decide he wasn't Trumpy enough. So NO prep for the next debate, are more "red meat". (For the third debate, he'll try to murder Clinton on stage, then claim he was just "joking".)