so the media is surrendering to the fact that you have a celebrity running which eyeballs to their brand and so therefore it s a symbolic relationship which is good for both. bob, surrendering to politics of ratings and clicks because trump generates controversy and traffic and he knows it. yeah. he knows it and that s why reporters like to cover trump because he gives them copy. he gives them ratings. he s interesting whatever you think of him. helicopter ride yesterday. he goes after politicians in a way that politicians don t go after one another. it s just that he s bringing in an audience that s not there before. my 15 year old watched the debate. he s never watched any other debate but he watched because of donald trump. your 15 year old had plenty of company as 24 million people watched that debate in cleveland. now, trump also taking his shots at the media and the fact that he and fox news have been at it since that debate in cleveland and gotten an enormous amount of
candidate, thomas you normally say this would be a disaster. you would end up tanking in the polls. i m not necessarily sure they re normal political times and he s not a normal political candidate. normal laws might not apply here but we ll have polls in iowa and nationwide and be able to tell. meanwhile srks the ability to draw large crowds a problem for donald trump moving forward or is that draw still going to be there? that s something with this celebrity. someone who s a celebrity running for president and someone who has the bona fide credentials to be a commander in chief are two different things right now and we are so early in the process, it is just july of 2015. first nominating contests don t occur for six or seven months and people want to show up to an event, out of curiosity than to say this is the person i m