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WASHINGTON — U.S. news networks devoted a half hour’s worth of coverage the other day to an inanimate object: the stage upon which Donald Trump would eventually speak.

They wouldn’t allow their empty-stage coverage to be interrupted by the fact that a leading presidential candidate happened to be on another stage speaking at that very moment.

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Hillary Clinton was delivering a speech on the middle-class agenda at a union event while networks like MSNBC and Fox had anchors filling airtime with small talk in anticipation of Trump’s arrival.

Clinton may be leading most presidential polls. But when it comes to grabbing media attention, it seems, nobody trumps Trump.

Democrats have quickly resigned themselves to the reality of running against a stunt-happy showman who steals the spotlight by any means necessary.

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