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Trump is very good and very smart, but he doesn't have that kind of finesse, I'm bound to say.

Okay, let's say we agree on that. Wouldn't you agree that a guy who lets the media (whore) have their full say, has an almost impossible task to win a debate in a short TV segment?

They ask a question that is designed so that there is no possible way to answer it, and then you've got two or three minutes of back-peddle.

Trump is bash enough to simple interrupt them and rip them to shreds for their tactics.

I don't think you win unless you can do that on occasion. Cruz seem too nice to be able to get away with that.

It's one thing to try it, but the public has to react by going, "yeah!". With some people they do, and with others they just wince.

No, I agree with you. I was just making an editorial remark about the finesse thing. I'm not for one minute asserting that Trump isn't effective, that he doesn't know what he's doing, or that he won't prevail (although I'm not convinced he really wants to prevail in the sense of being elected President, but I admit he sure seems like he does).

The points you are making are good ones.

Look, Trump is a public figure nationally, but long before he became a national figure he was a public figure in New York City, which is one of the most intense media hotbeds in the world. Ever since he fixed the Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park back in the '80s (which had been unusable for something like 20 years) he has demonstrated over and over that he knows how to handle the media, that he's a master of the game.

No argument from me.