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Trump Becomes Latest GOP Nominee To Get Lost Inside The Fox News Bubble

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Looking to make the media rounds on Tuesday morning in an attempt to clean up his Monday night debate mess, Republican nominee Donald Trump actually had only one destination on his schedule: Fox News, of course.

Calling into his allies and supporters on Fox & Friends, Trump promptly made things worse for his campaign. First, he suggested there might have been a debate conspiracy afoot to fit him with a faulty microphone, as a way to explain his shaky performance. ("My microphone was terrible.") Then Trump got even further sidetracked from campaign messaging by fat-shaming a former winner of his Miss Universe pageant: "She was the winner, and she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem."

For a candidate who was nearly unanimously crowned the loser of the first presidential debate (except for in unscientific online polls he and Fox News have been desperately promoting), Trump's attempt at damage control via Fox News was like the captain of the Titanic circling around the iceberg for a second look.

But of course, they loved Trump on Fox News, even after his debate loss. "A very good night for Donald Trump," announced Sean Hannity. And from news anchor Bret Baier: "I do think he gets credit for just being on the stage." They also tried to spin away his debate lies and conjure up reasons for his lopsided loss.

And that's why Trump's campaign now resembles a Fox News cocoon, or a hermetically sealed bubble. Since the summer, Trump has basically only spoken to Fox News. Gone is the much-touted Trump media accessibility from the Republican primary. It's been replaced with the Trump bunker strategy, where only friendly questioners are allowed and the Republican candidate is able to expound in a fact-free Fox zone.

It's a bubble where Trump doesn't have to explain his long-running birther pursuit, nobody cares about his tax returns, where Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, is admired for his strong leadership, and where bigotry is celebrated.

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