Bernie Sanders: 'Trump is very smart' for manipulating the media
Donald Trump is “very smart,” Bernie Sanders said during an interview that aired Thursday, because the Manhattan mogul and former star of NBC’s “The Apprentice” franchise knows how to play the media.
In a discussion on CNN’s “New Day” with Chris Cuomo, Sanders addressed why he thinks the Republican candidate’s poll numbers keep rising and why he appears to be solidifying support among the party’s base a little more than a month before voters head to the polls in the first primary and caucus states.
“Well Chris, you’re going to have to ask the media precisely why. I mean, Trump is a media guy,” Sanders said, before dropping in a reference to the annual Tyndall Report on news coverage, which found that “ABC World News Tonight” featured 81 minutes of Trump and just 20 seconds of him in the same time frame.
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“Explain to me, and I know CNN may be different here, and you have been very generous with me,” Sanders said to Cuomo in the conversation taped during a break from campaigning in Council Bluffs, Iowa. ”But you explain to me how a major network on the evening news has 81 minutes of Trump, 20 seconds of Bernie Sanders. Does that make sense to anybody?”
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