Notwithstanding a full week of attacks from his rivals. And notwithstanding over $38 million dollars of attack ads leveled against Trump,The Donald scored huge wins in the deep south, Mississippi, against Cruz. He crushed Kasich, Cruz and Rubio in Michigan, America’s blue collar heartland. Then in the early morning, he also won in Obama’s supposed American birthplace, Hawaii. “Book 'em, Donald!!!”
In Mississippi, Trump beat Cruz among Evangelicals (that’s Cruz’s firewall) and those GOP voters who are anti-government, the latter by a two to one margin. In Michigan, Trump destroyed Kasich, his nearest opponent, and won the vast support of men and women, GOP and Democrats, who have lost their jobs due to globalization+international trade deals. In other words, the Reagan Democrats, those Democrats who crossed party lines to vote in Republican Ronald Reagan, are coming back to the Republican fold, for the first time in decades, due to Donald Trump, railing against free trade deals.
And, folks, this is one of the major reasons for Trump’s unbelievable success to date. On every campaign stop, Trump has been hammering against free trade, free trade, free trade and more free trade. A veritable anti-trade tirade.
Contrary to the ignorant pundits in the mainstream media, Trump is winning, not because he is appealing to the base instincts of the American electorate. He is winning because he understands and is articulating the anger of millions of white and black Americans, who have lost their jobs and their homes to unfair international trade deals, which they believe have closed American factories and exported these jobs out of the United States.
Trump is winning on substance- on the economy and the economic injustice that a majority of Americans are experiencing.
Trump is also killing it in the media. He truly enjoys the spotlight and he is loving this campaign. And the more his critics attack him and blow millions of dollars in negative ads, the stronger he gets.
CNN analyst Van Jones has compared Trump to an X man villain- Sebastian Shaw (played by Kevin Bacon on the screen). The harder you hit this dude, the stronger he becomes.
Also in response to that political buffoon, Mittens Romney, questioning Trump’s business acumen, Trump flipped the proverbial finger at all his detractors. Trump taunted his critics by holding his election night victory news conference at the very successful Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida -- and catered it with Trump Wines, Trump Water and Trump Steaks.
Pure media genius!!!
Mitch Wolfe, a graduate of Harvard University, is the author of “Trump: How He Captured The Trump White House”, which he wrote and had published prior to the election. (available on Amazon.com)
