Fox News canceled the Republican debate in Salt Lake City after Donald Trump said he won't show up because he is tired of the format and he has already committed to delivering a speech that night. Shortly afterward, Ohio Gov. John Kasich said he won't debate if Trump doesn't appear.

H/T: Fox 13

Update: "Kasich Won’t Attend Next GOP Debate If Trump Doesn’t"

“If he changes his mind, we will be there,” John Weaver, a strategist on John Kasich’s presidential campaign, says of March 21 GOP presidential debate. “We had hoped to contrast Governor Kasich’s positive inclusive approach to problem solving” with Donald Trump’s “campaign of division” […]

H/T: Bloomberg

Meanwhile………

"Evangelicals accuse fellow believers of abandoning faith to support Trump"

Donald Trump’s candidacy has sparked a civil war inside American {Conservative} Christianity.

Trump’s popularity among self-identified evangelical Christians has led national figures in American {Conservative} Christianity to question whether large swaths of the church even know what their faith teaches, and how it applies to public and political life.

The split is between a subset of evangelicals best categorized as "creedal" believers — those who take their faith most seriously and who oppose Trump. Less devout Christians, often described as “notional” or “cultural,” are more open to the businessman and GOP frontrunner. The majority of national evangelical leaders are on the side of creedal believers.

If Trump becomes the Republican nominee, many of these creedal evangelicals who have traditionally voted Republican say they would distance themselves from the GOP. But nobody knows whether this would result in evangelicals moving over to vote for the Democratic nominee or whether there would be a broader movement among conservatives to form a third party. [….]

H/T: Yahoo News

And then there's "Plan B" (…or C…or D….darn, I've lost track…lol)…….

"Boehner backs Paul Ryan for president"

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Former Speaker John Boehner said Paul Ryan should be the Republican nominee for president if the party fails to choose a candidate on the first ballot.

"If we don't have a nominee who can win on the first ballot, I'm for none of the above," Boehner said at the Futures Industry Association conference here.

"They all had a chance to win. None of them won. So I'm for none of the above. I'm for Paul Ryan to be our nominee." [….]

H/T: Hotair: et al

“I think we'll win before getting to the convention, but I can tell you, if we didn't and if we're 20 votes short or if we're 100 short and we're at 1,100 and somebody else is at 500 or 400, because we're way ahead of everybody, I don't think you can say that we don't get it automatically. I think it would be — I think you'd have riots,” Trump told CNN's "New Day."

Trump said he's bringing in all kinds of new people to the party, and those voices must be heard — or else.

"Now, if you disenfranchise those people and you say, well I'm sorry but you're 100 votes short, even though the next one is 500 votes short, I think you would have problems like you've never seen before. I think bad things would happen, I really do. I believe that. I wouldn't lead it but I think bad things would happen," he said. […]

H/T: Politico

Update: "Trump Says He Won't Attend Next GOP Debate Held By Fox News"

Donald Trump on Wednesday morning told "Fox and Friends" that he will not participate in the Fox News Republican presidential debate on March 21 because he had already scheduled a speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

"Nobody even told me about it," Trump said when asked if he would attend the next debate. "I thought the last debate on CNN was the last debate. That was going to be it. And I’m doing a major speech in front of a very important group of people, I think it’s eight or 9,000 people, that night. And it was scheduled a while ago."

Trump did not seem disappointed that he will have to skip the debate.

"I think we’ve had enough debates," he said on Fox. "How many times can the same people ask you the same question?" […]

H/T: MSN, WashPost