Trump's media dominance a threat to Clinton

Donald Trump's talent for dominating the media poses a mortal threat to Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations.

During one 25-minute interview on Thursday, among the relative few the likely Democratic nominee has granted, she was asked about Trump a dozen times. That's an average of once every two minutes, and doesn't even count the number of times Clinton mentioned the presumptive Republican nominee unprompted to make a point.

This wasn't an accident, but a result of Trump's deliberate communications strategy to flood the zone. In the Republican primary, the New York businessman's ubiquitous presence on television, and social media, primarily Twitter, helped sink an experienced field of opponents.

They were constantly off balance and on defense — and being forced to respond to Trump reinforced an image among GOP voters that the real estate mogul was the only candidate offering solutions to their problems.

Clinton could face the same fate in the general election, say political strategists, Democrats among them, if she doesn't loosen up and become more accessible to the press, something she finds very difficult to do because of deep-seeded mistrust.