Nets Hype Trump ‘Stealing All the Oxygen’ From GOP Candidates

Kyle Drennen | July 22, 2015
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

On Wednesday, all three network morning shows proclaimed that Donald Trump was making it “nearly impossible” for any other 2016 Republican candidates to get any media attention. On NBC’s Today, co-host Matt Lauer declared: “Donald Trump remains the talk of the presidential race with some new antics on the campaign trail. And it's making it hard for any of the fifteen other Republicans to get any attention...”

Moments later, national correspondent Peter Alexander piled on: “But with Trump stealing almost all the oxygen here, it's become nearly impossible for any of his opponents to spark momentum of their own.”