George Will, who notoriously abandoned the Republican Party over Donald Trump, said Sunday that he actually "ran a brilliant campaign."
He appeared on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace. Here's an excerpt:
WILL: "All that said, he ran a brilliant campaign. If it was antecedent was a pronoun campaign. If you’d ask, you’d say, what do you like about Donald Trump, they’d say, he tells “it” like it is. And you could fill in the antecedent to the pronoun “it.” The transition has been a kind of shrug since then saying, oh, never mind. Not going to appoint a special prosecutor to lock her up. We’re not going to deport 200,000 people a month to get 11 million people out of the country in two years. It doesn’t matter because what he — he brilliantly understood was the power of social media.
"One of the consequences of his victory will be, I think, that we’ll hear very little from now on about campaign finance regulations and the power of money in politics. He was badly outspent because he understood you could go around that on the new platforms and make 30-second television spots marginally important."