He has gotten far more earned media than everyone else and on top of that, almost every time another candidate gets on TV, he or she has to talk about Trump. I wonder, for instance, how many times Rick Perry was on TV the last few months when he wasn’t asked at least once about Trump.
Trump is not just leading every single poll (as he likes to tell us), he has flipped around his favorable-unfavorable ratings in an unprecedented way.
He is driving the conversation on the agenda. It’s not true, as he insists, that no one would be talking about illegal immigration if he weren’t in the race, but there’s no doubt immigration looms much larger as an issue because of him, as does everything else he talks about.
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