From Texas Standard:
An estimated 20,000 people packed into the American Airlines Center Monday night to see Donald Trump live in Dallas, Texas.
Politico reported that tickets sold out so fast, scalpers were selling pairs of passes online for $200.
As the talking heads furrow their brows to explain how Donald Trump is “winning” – as he puts it – and as political analysts twist to account for the Trump effect, the candidate himself nailed it last night.
He says that on TV, it’s “all Trump, all the time.”
“Their ratings are through the roof. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t put me on, I’ll be honest with you,” Trump says. “It’s a very simple formula in entertainment and television, if you get good ratings…then you’re gonna be on all the time, even if you have nothing to say.”
Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, professor and chair of the University of North Texas Political Science Department, tells the Standard whether Trump's comment has merit.
He says the relationship between TV and presidential politics is “highly interrelated.”
