WSJ’s Kim Strassel: Trump ‘Has Been Brought Back Down to Earth’

GEIST: “Hey, Kim, it’s Willie Geist. This is the first big punch that Donald Trump has taken. He’s obviously at huge leads in New Hampshire, depending on what poll you look at. It’s almost 30 points in some of them, at least 20 in others. How does this affect him, the second place finish in Iowa? Does it matter in New Hampshire for Donald Trump?”
STRASSEL: “It does. Because the most important aspect here is that you suddenly have an end to the idea of invincibility of Donald Trump. And that is something that has mattered so much to him, this idea that nothing could happen to him that would pull him down in the polls. Well, now it turns out he has been brought back down to Earth a little bit. The other question, of course, as we all know, is that a lot of how these races turn out is media focus and media attention. Will Donald Trump dominate those headlines any more, or is this a chance for the other candidates to suddenly be the one that all the TV cameras are chasing? And that could hurt him too.”