No one explained Trump’s 2016 triumph, which so confounded the liberal media, as well as did Salena Zito. She famously said that the press took Trump “literally, but not seriously,” whereas Trump’s supporters took him “seriously, but not literally.”
There was an echo of that analysis on today’s CNN This Morning. Co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly were trying to understand why Trump’s fiery rhetoric, far from hurting him with Republican primary voters, seems to actually be helping him.
First up was Shelby Talcott. Now at Semafor, Talcott worked at The Daily Caller for over three years, including a stint as its senior White House correspondent. She said:
“A lot of the voters that I talked to on the ground have the mentality that, A: this is just sort of something you have to deal with when Donald Trump is involved, and, B: they view this rhetoric as…
