Ann Coulter gets it right: "It's not that Drudge led to Trump," she added. "Drudge was reflecting where the public is."
Exactly, nobody could stop Trump because he is what the frustrated Republican base wants. If somehow Hillary were to win this election, the next Republican nominee would be insurrection.
And we know how accurate the media has been for the last year.
It is the media’s job to report, not indoctrinate.
Superman could stop Trump...jeez, these articles are ridiculous.
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda.
All Drudge does is post headlines. He doesn’t editorialize. I guess the little people are enjoying to much diversity in their information sources.
I'm loving every bit of it...they are going down in flames and there isn't one thing they can do about it...he, he, he,
GO.TRUMP/PENCE.GO!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE!!!
Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda! Why even bother posting this crap! It isn’t even old news and it didn’t happen.
Get over it, Biz insider...your traitor MSM industry is dead. You should get a job somewhere else before the robots take it.
“He is rarely spotted in public and holds close company with only a few select people.”
I don’t blame him at all. If I were in his shoes, I’d be very cautious about who I associated with and taking walks at night alone.
I think once the momentum had been established, it would have been hard to derail Trump by anyone. Had Drudge, Limbaugh, Beck or Hannity early on poo-pooed Trump it probably would have put a damper on his rise. But they didn’t. They all like that he was giving the establishment a belly ache and they propped him up because of that. They belly ache turned into a campaign cancer if you were one of the other 16 candidates. But Trump’s momentum started rolling, it was too late to stop him. Beck was earliest. Limbaugh, while never going full throttle, became less neutral and did share some Trump negatives. Hannity and Drudge remained ever loyal.
what most people in media and in politics don’t understand is that trump taped in to the political reality that a good portion of the republican party and the democratic party have not had there thoughts on immigration, foreign policy, business, and military as related to how the general public feels. most of those that support trump would of fallowed anyone that we sensed was saying what he has said as long as we felt they believed it.
for a long time the curtain has been removed by social media and we have been seeing in the news and on the web the consultants brag about there manipulation of the general voting public. this is what most voting for Trump are reacting to. there is a big realization of how those like Romney, bush and McCain truly did not believe what they were saying instead they were listening to there advisers that were saying if you say this you will lose this segment of the vote.
one of the big mistakes made this year was by bush who openly bragged that he was going to win the presidency by being left center on republican issues his thoughts was that he controlled the election because he had the support of the big money within the republican party. his thought was to flood the lineup with candidates so the fact that he was center left would not eliminate him. his thought was that the election is won in the first 5-7 primary’s and caucuses instead what happen is that Trump entered the race and had a solid 25% of the vote in a race that had over 15 people running. As different politicians were nocked out there constituents went to either trump cruz, or another candidate still in the running. the split was 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 in the end Trump won because he had the stronger base of support....
Any one that thinks that bush , Kasich or any of the sore losers have a chance against Hillary are deluding them selves other then Cruz none of them had a strong base of loyal support. in this election it had to be either Trump or Cruz running against Hilary or there would be a major embarrassing loss of the type carter had in 1980. at this point I am confident that Trump is going to win and it is going to be the democrats that see a lopsided los to Trump.
this is just my thoughts on what has happened this election cycle
Wait until these Einsteins discover Fred Thompson!
No offense to Matt, but this is just strange.
You wonder where some of these writers come up with this stuff. And you wonder why anyone would pay them to write it.
Maybe Drudge is more sensitive to what’s happening in the country than most media. The MSM seems to know what the media elite one desk over is thinking and feeling... and the political elite he speaks to at a party... and the business elite he interviews for a story.
Beyond that the MSM is clueless.’
Drudge on the other hand is aware of the American people and OUR wants and fears... he’s one of us.
To quote Hitler-y, “Would-a, Could-a, Should-a!”
“If WISHES were HORSES, then beggars would ride!”
- Don’t know who said that first.
The old gang is STILL under the impression they can control the outcome by telling the right story. too bad the media is quickly becoming irrelevant.
I, for one, and all of my FRiends, are grateful that Drudge played this one the way he did!
Thanks, Matt!
Taxman Bravo Zulu!
Drudge tried to stop McCain/Romney in 2008/2012.
HE FAILED. I may like him, but he IS NOT the person deciding the nominee, not this year at least - he is just another commentator, as he was earlier.
I suspect that Trump is where he is BECAUSE of Trump’s positions...although I know two things:
1) The left knows FULL WELL that Trump connected with voters that LOVE THIS COUNTRY.
2) The left can NEVER admit such.