Does everybody Love Donald Trump?

"Everybody loves me," Donald Trump said after the announcement of his candidacy last summer . Few in the US or abroad took that for granted.

Indeed, his campaign for US President was dismissed as a cheap publicity stunt of a cocky TV billionaire. Chance, which Trump was the trend in the mainstream media. Trump gave the speech in which he pushed himself forward as the ultimate leader, mainly led to laughter .

Insults

Even before the results of the first primaries showed that billionaire from New York defied all laws of political gravity . Trump had done one after another seemingly controversial decision in the autumn, which had diffident any other 'normal' candidate.

He found his leading party member John McCain, who was for five years a prisoner of war in Vietnam, a war hero. "I prefer people who are not imprisoned are," he said . When he then criticized by another presidential candidate, he made ​​en plein public his telephone number known.

Even the remark after a TV debate that there is a host of conservative TV channel Fox News "blood coming from her eyes and blood from its know-I-many where" his reputation is not harmed.

Donald Trump bleeding on Fox News presenter
He almost caused a diplomatic row by turning off the Mexican people as a criminal drug dealers and rapists he would stop behind an impenetrable boundary wall.

It even led to an admonition from the pope. "Someone who has only about building walls instead of building bridges is not a Christian," Francis said in a recent visit to Mexico .

Trump's defense is always the same: I am very clever and I have no time for political correctness. "We need to work in this country. That will never succeed if we remain politically correct," he says.

Donald Trump about his lack of political correctness
His statements fall well with the group of white, usually less educated voters from the working class, wrote correspondent Arjen van der Horst earlier. "They have a deep distrust of the political class in Washington and feel totally abandoned. They have not profited from the economic growth of recent years and feel right and left passed through successful newcomers from Latin America and Asia. "

It is an explanation for the resounding success of Trump laid whose global TV exposure and additional media attention not harm him, too. He now has 285 delegates gathered for the 1237 needed to win the party's nomination. In second place is Ted Cruz, with 160 delegates.

Everything or nothing

These figures show that the fight by far is not yet over. His opponents hope to maintain at least until March 15, when they can make a big bang. Thanks to the winner-takes-all principle to include the primaries in Florida, Illinois and Ohio are earning 295 delegates.

The question remains whether Cruz, Marco Rubio (Florida Senator) and John Kasich (Ohio Governor), given the polls , still can count on a miracle.