[Hoot Gibson]

When did we start expecting Republican candidates to have media allies?
Trump's style has been ridiculed by many ad nauseam yet he routed 16 or 17 well-qualified, more experienced Republicans. I think he will do just fine going up against Hillary one-on-one.

Republicans always have media allies during the primary season. The media loved Dole and McCain until the general campaign arrived. No Republican candidate has ever received the positive coverage that Trump did during the primaries. Mark Levin's description of Fox News as Trump's super PAC was on the money.

Fox News sacrificed viewers to its competition to promote Trump's candidacy. When the general campaign heats up, Fox News (and Murdock's other media companies), with its declining ratings, will be Trump's only major media ally.

Trump cannot win against Hillary Clinton with the same kind of campaign that worked for him against the Republican candidates because his personal insults and lies will get an entirely different treatment by the media than they did when his targets were Republicans.