They are laughing their arses off.
Their agitprop wing, the Mass Media chose the Republican "front runners" and made it so by telling Republicans everywhere those were the "front runners". (The big lie is alive and well).
Hillary probably has .pdf files of every scrap from their FBI Files, and enough dirt to scuttle each and every one of them. She is flanked by O'bama and Breck Girl, neither of which will win while she breathes.
Sound like a setup? It is.
The media have ALWAYS given Hillary the soft questions, ignore the wrongdoings, and more than enough of them still gush over her (>GAG!<)
Like him or not (I'm a Hunter fan, myself.), Fred is the one Republican candidate with enough name recognition who was not selected for ease in later destruction during the campaign.
Other less known candidates can be ignored by the media, and unless the internet can fill that gap, they will not get the airtime they need to build a strong war chest.
Fred is the wild card.
So expect the full court press, with every stumble, second of dead air, unremembered word, and teleprompter malfunction televised like Gerald Ford tripping over cables strung along the ground while he had kleig lights in his face and was attempting to look at the reporter asking him a question, or Bob Dole falling after leaning against an ill secured railing.
Expect questions like "Have you quit beating your wife yet?", answers cut off in mid sylable, crappy make-up, bad lighting, and camera angles calculated to make him look older.
The media are going to attack Fred pissless, in every way they can, because they are afraid of him.
I hope Fred is up to dealing with it, and imho, this just might explain why he waited to declare.
Fred probably saved himself (and us) about $30 million dollars by waiting until the traditional time to launch his campaign for the Presidency.
It was not by accident.
As He is fond of saying, it’s “not his first rodeo”.
They have good reason to be afraid.