More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
Appearing on NBC’s Late Night on Monday – aired early Tuesday morning – Today co-host Matt Lauer assessed the state of the Republican presidential race: “Donald Trump is getting all the attention right now on the Republican side....This guy is great. He's a showman. He’s got a lot of P.T. Barnum in him and he knows how to promote things....it's hard for the other candidates to get any attention whatsoever, because Donald is, I think some would say, sucking the oxygen out of the room.”
Moments later, host Seth Meyers remarked: “I love that anybody thinks you can attack Donald Trump in a way that affects him. He is such a sponge of rage. Like he just takes it in.” Lauer declared: “But he's really shaking things up. He's forcing them into places where they're not comfortable.”