Donald Trump isn't always a winner; last year, he was only the second most talked about topic on evening newscasts, according to news analyst Andrew Tyndall. After analyzing broadcasts by ABC, NBC, and CBS News, Tyndall found that the stations spent a total of 327 minutes covering Trump — and 377 minutes covering "winter storms."
No need for Trump to bash winter storms for beating him to the No. 1 spot, however; according to Tyndall, ABC's evening news broadcast "produced almost as much Trump coverage last year as it did for the Ebola panic in 2014." That's a lot of Trump.
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