He's been preening awhile for this. Has quite a collection of
baby hugging photos too.
He's a simpleton. Makes an initial impression as a true moderate, but the dims are so far over the edge they'd never realize that, with much help and luck in the debates, he could actually win it for them. He'd have a much better chance of actually winning than Hitlery. In that sense his line about being real is very much on point.