One of his biggest flaws and greatest strengths is that he generally refuses to be cowed and act the puppet to the puppet masters.  The media leads the debates onto non-issues asking leading questions about gossip.  In my opinion it is mostly the media that is responsible for the lack of issue focus.  Their questions are not aimed at elucidating or even identifying issues.  We, in fact, do not know Trump the man or have any experience with how he behaves on the one-to-one basis that politics is often conducted.  He has been successful in doing business deals which take buy in from multiple parties.  All we know is the story presented, baked, packaged, and arranged by the media.  I expect that indeed the media will profoundly affect the outcome of the pending election and not in a positive way but through innuendo and gossip,  Every time we let the media get away with diverting our attention from issues we suffer as a country.