Actually, MSNBC and CNN did just as much to elect Trump as Fox by giving him massive earned media coverage of his many rallies. The reason for this is basic human nature. His rallies were always exciting and dangerous and made really good TV. They were so anxious to show him up and catch him in his next racist or sexist soundbite that they guaranteed he would be a reality TV star relative to the untrusted and boring Hillary Clinton.
exactly- they ALL felt he would lose ‘bigly’ against Hillary- and they pushed him to the front in the primaries- for the ratings, as you point out- they felt he wasn’t a serious risk and that they could take him out of the race- like you say0- by painting him as a racist, womanizer, novice etc- I don’t think they wanted him elected as president- I think they felt he would lose- and the stunned weeping reactions on the left on the msm channels show how caught off guard they all were- Even many in fox were shocked-