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37. he got about 80% of the coverage, and 80% of the coverage hillary got was negative

Fri May 4, 2018, 01:16 PM

May 2018

frankly i think the media is irresponsible to dismiss third-party candidates as much as they do, but there's no good argument to have treated donnie any better, especially if the prevailing wisdom is that donnie wasn't going to win. that's exactly the justification they always give for almost completely ignoring and dismissing third-party candidates.

in any event, there's zero justification for giving donnie a wildly disproportionate amount of airtime. if hillary was the heavy favorite to become president, then her policy positions should have been considered far more newsworthy than donnie's idiocies like the wall, which dominated news coverage.

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