The MSM hates Cruz more than it hates Trump; truth be told, the MSM loves Trump because he is himself a media-made celebrity. If the MSM really hated Trump as much as his supporters claim, it would ignore him and refuse to take him seriously, as ES pointed out in another post. His poll numbers are assisted by his name recognition and favoring MSM coverage such as illustrated in this very story.
The MSM treats him like the pop culture celebrity he is, reports breathlessly his every "controversial" word, and contributes to his extreme name recognition already established 10 years prior thanks to Trump's well-executed self-promotion in media campaigns and a national realty TV show, Trump holds a lead in the polls. He ALREADY ESTABLISHED a carefully cultivated brand image of "brilliant fix-anything billionaire genius" before he ran for president. OF COURSE his poll numbers are high. He's a bombastic showman and an entertainer who tells people what they want to hear and manages to come across as politically incorrect as he does it.
As for an actual track record, he has ZIP except as a billionaire who arguably is not nearly as brilliant as his media-created brand image says he is.
The press can't ignore him because he is the news. Ignore him and no one reads or listens to you.
The press hates Trump and that is evidenced by how they lie about and smear and obfuscate everything he says and does.
I am a Cruz supporter first. But Cruz cannot resonate with the voters at this time.
But that doesn't mean that I have to hate Trump.
Trump didn't steal the show from Cruz. Cruz just doesn't resonate with the voters at this particular time.
Because of the immense disappointment at Cruz's failure, a few (really about 5 or 10) here at FR are blind to what Trump is actually doing. It's pretty remarkable when one is able to look at it without being blinded by disappointment and anger.
He's gonna win, so you may as well get used to it.
The way the MSM covers Trump produces two results, promotion of Trump on the Republican side and demotion of Trump on the Democrat side.
Cruz the conservative, they just want to ignore.
They are shooting for a Clinton beats Trump scenario.
And if Trump beats Clinton, then at least they have a president who would give an expedited over-and-back legalization amnesty for millions, universal health insurance coverage and a president who doesn't make mention of the principle of liberty.