When Trump sucks all the oxygen in the race

Down in Mar-a-Lago, they're calling it total dominance," the Trump associate chuckled as he slid his phone across the desk to show me a photo.

The image was of a dozen different TV channels all tuned to Trump's speech hours after the former president's historic arrest. It was taken by one of Trump's aides who was with him down in Florida and then sent around as bragging rights to show how much coverage Trump can still command.

"They just give us free airtime," the associate added, almost perplexed. If American election campaigns are a war, TV is the battlefield and this week team Trump blew all his opponents off the map.