Bad News Week Seen As Helping Donald Trump Candidacy

Conventional widsom would indicate it's been a bad week for Presidential hopeful, business mogul Donald Trump. After all, NBC, Univision, Macy’s and Serta have all cut ties with him over his comments on Mexican immigrants.

Many people obviously found those comments offensive. But, says media pundit and host of Media Buzz on Fox News Howard Kurtz, in purely political terms, all the publicity is helping Trump.

Arrodingt o Kurtz, Trump has dominated the campaign news cycle for a week, drawing more attention than all the other candidates combined. "He has driven home his message with a spate of cable news interviews."

"Here’s what the media elite misses, and why he’s surged into second place in Fox and CNN polls. Trump portrays himself as a fighter, and that resonates with many voters. Trump casts himself as a straight talker, and voters like that. Trump markets himself as a non-politician in an era when the public is fed up with pols. He’s seen as tough on illegal immigration, which doesn’t hurt in a Republican primary."

And Kurtz adds President Obama, in Tennessee, is now calling  for a smart legal immigration system “that doesn’t separate families but does focus on making sure that people who are dangerous, people who are, you know, gang-bangers, who are criminals that we’re deporting as quickly as possible.”

Gang-bangers? Trump’s version was more inelegant, but if the president is worried about Mexican gang-bangers, doesn’t it suggest the businessman had a point?