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Thursday, August 27, 2015

First Read: Donald Trump's Constantly Moving Targets

NBC News
By Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann
August 26, 2015

Trump's constantly moving targets

When he first entered the presidential race, Donald Trump attacked Mexico and Mexicans. Then he targeted John McCain. Then it was Lindsey Graham and Rick Perry. After the first debate, Trump picked a fight with Megyn Kelly and Fox News. Next it was Jeb Bush. And then yesterday, in a span of less than 12 hours, Trump blasted Kelly and Fox News (again), Univision's Jorge Ramos, and even Marco Rubio, per NBC's Ali Vitali. Whew, got all of that? Indeed, you could argue that all of Trump's moving targets have become one of the secrets to his political success so far: There are so many, it's hard to track -- let alone remember -- the latest outrage. Here's Red State's Leon Wolf (hat tip: MSNBC's Benjy Sarlin: "Watching Donald Trump speak and answer questions … is like watching a billion targets appear in the sky all at once, for a political opponent. Each thing he says is so bizarre, or ill informed, or demonstrably false, or un presidential in tone or character, that it becomes impossible to know which target to lock on to or focus on." More: Donald Trump is the political equivalent of chaff, a billion shiny objects all floating through the sky at once, ephemeral, practically without substance, serving almost exclusively to distract from more important things - yet nonetheless completely impossible to ignore." Exactly.

Trump: "I am not a bully"

That said, the overall story about Trump is the same: He's attacking someone out there. On "Today" this morning, NBC's Matt Lauer asked Trump is he was a bully. Trump replied, "I am not a bully; in fact, I think it is the opposite… [Univision's Jorge Ramos] gets up and starts ranting and raving."


By the way, it's not just Donald Trump who's mixing it up with Megyn Kelly and Fox News. When Kelly repeatedly asked Ted Cruz last night what he would do with the 11 million undocumented immigrants, Cruz responded by saying that's "the question every mainstream media liberal journalist wants to ask" and "the question Barack Obama wants to focus on." Yet given that exchange as well as Trump's battle with Univision's Ramos, it's worth considering this thought exercise via the Washington Post's Greg Sargent: Would the Trump phenomenon and the 11 million question even exist right now if House Republicans voted on the Senate immigration bill last year? "If Republicans had simply held votes on immigration reform in 2013 or in early 2014, it probably would have passed," Sargent writes. "That likely would have made it harder for Trump-ism to take hold to the degree it has so far."

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