Trump is facing not one adversary but also most of the members of the press, debate moderators, members of the Republican and Democratic establishment, “fact checkers” cited by most of the members of the press
Donald Trump would win by a landslide if only honest fact checkers would prevail over the dishonest fact checkers, or, to be charitable, if only the honest fact checkers would prevail over the naïve and/or incompetent fact checkers. The miracle of Trump is to be competitive despite being openly opposed by, above all,
Most members of the media,
Most of the fact checkers selected by most members of the media,
Most of the debate moderators, as well as, to a lesser extent,
Trump’s actual opponent, and
Members of the establishments in the Republican and Democratic parties.