Trump ignored what savvy campaigners told him from the start. Trump hired Chuck Laudner to build an Iowa ground game - that’s grass roots delegates starting at the lowest level - and then Trump completely ignored Laudner.
Trump has ignored the delegate count as a matter of strategy, not because he didn’t understand it. It’s a gamble based on his Kardashian appeal.
Trump is an accomplished and truly successful person. The next Kardashian candidate probably won’t be, and might even be an actual Kardashian.
There were many a fight between them I understand.....but then Launders knew the man well before he was on board, in fact was with Trump years ago when he first began to toy with the Presidency.... So it's not like he didn't know what he was stepping into with Trump.....
Trumps has had 30 plus years playing the popularity game and media to sell his Brand.....not to mention refining his tactics to manipulate people and the environment he's in at any given moment.
There are many accomplished and successful people with notoriety , who even so shouldn't be President either...these do come to mind....and just as with Trump did for decades they bought and sold elections...and still do.