Absolutely agreed, but my point is more that his offensive stuff was underreported by MSM during the campaign. He was clear enough on his plans when talking to right wing crowds, but in "public" he avoided answering when it would make him look bad. Anyone who was looking out could tell what he was going to do, but if you only watched the evening news you probably wouldn't have noticed it.

His opponent didn't do a good enough job defusing the "muh schools" crap, which FOX had spun out of nothing into a national issue in the preventing months.