Dom Giordano Column: Who Will Turn on Trump
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- I got an early start on my Sunday morning talk shows this week. I usually start with Jake Tapper's State of the Union on CNN but I happened to tune into to John King's show on CNN. The views of King's panel on the attacks on Trump's supporters in San Jose show just how biased and out of touch many in the media are.
Jonathan Martin one of the panelists tried to make the point that if these attacks on Trump supporters continued people would move away from Trump because they would see him as too volatile. This guy really believes that voters seeing the California mobs burning the American flag, waving Mexican flags, and attacking Trump supporters will turn against Trump? That view is exactly the opposite of what I think these attacks and attacks that I think will happen at both the Democratic and Republican will provoke in voters.
Monica Crowley on Fox News Channel last week was on the mark last week when she said that Trump has revived and brought back Richard Nixon's Silent Majority. These were the people that Nixon portrayed as the everyday people who built up America versus the protesters who often were resorting to violence to push their views. I agree with this and think that Trump is much better at playing this than Nixon.
Mrs. Clinton's strategy to blunt this is to say that Trump provoked a lot of this by violence at his rhetoric at his events. That argument won't work and I think that many of the protesters attacking Trump are starting to believe that if they control the streets through violence they'll win the election. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia.
Trump has been underrated throughout this process and this is just the latest example.
