Why Trump is so popular: He'll fight for a change

Donald Trumps' continued popularity continues to baffle the experts in this election campaign. Liberals are beside themselves and having temper tantrums over the possibility of a Trump presidency. Most thought he would have self destructed by now.

But it is becoming increasingly obvious that that will not happen. Republicans and, for that matter, all Americans have been starving for someone who will stand up and fight for a change instead of just sitting by and taking it.

If you watch a Trump speech, he gets his loudest response when he refers to the mainstream media as "despicable people." Why? He is echoing what we Republicans and conservatives have to hear every day and read every morning.

A prime example was a headline in a local paper, "Back me or expect riots, Trump warns." Now the casual reader would interpret that as Trump will order his followers to riot.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Trump was simply commenting on the mention that establishment politicians might pull a fast one at the convention and try to nominate a Kasich or whoever doesn't have any backing of the electorate.

The writers went on to quote him in the article "You'd have riots." What he actually said was, "I think you'd have riots."

Obviously Trump was speculating on what his followers might do. This is just a tiny example of how the liberal media spins political news to their candidate of choice's favor.

If every Republican stood up and called out the media on their misrepresentations and flat-out lies, they would never lose another election.

Mike Kantor

Bradenton

This story was originally published March 28, 2016 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Why Trump is so popular: He'll fight for a change ."