The conservative media in the US accuse their liberal counterparts of being out of touch with the ground realities but it was the same conservative media that had written him off. The liberal media were simply deferring to their judgment since the likes of Fox would presumably know more about the average Joe conservative voter that the Republican Party seeks to represent. In one internal election process after the other, Trump bulldozed through all expectations, despite what most of the punditry were saying. Once he finally won the party’s candidacy, and later, when he won the election, videos of renegade pundits predicting his candidacy and victory emerged. These were individuals, very few in number, who had predicted this on news programs, while their co-panelists laughed at them.

Source: Pakistan Today May 25, 2019 18:11 UTC