The 2016 US presidential election is the most unpredictable election in American history. People don’t know who to vote for. They know Hillary Clinton is a liar, but don’t feel comfortable voting for Donald Trump because all they’ve heard about him is what Facebook and the media wants them to hear about him. He’s a historic candidate, and an unconventional one. Nothing has stuck to him, not the media attacks or assaults by his fellow candidates. Trump’s shock and awe campaign has begun a political movement, one that challenges the media narrative and has in turn only fueled Trump’s candidacy. So why does Trump, whose defied physics (metaphorically) for over a year have the chance to win the White House?

Well, here’s why.

Donald Trump is a philanthropist, a job-creator, and he’s not a politician.

Unlike the rest of the people who ran for president on either side of the aisle, Donald Trump understands economics, job creation, and trade better than anyone he ran against. He spent years expanding a company he helped build starting with pouring concrete and hanging girders in his father’s company with the average workers. Many apply his experience in this as his reason he connects to average people. When he took over the Trump Organization he made it the largest real estate corporation in the world, and helped bring about New York City’s architectural renewal. Trump and his children have donated billions throughout their lives to charity and he has become the chief employer of over 11,000 employees globally.

In addition, he understands the value of work, something Republicans swoon over, and has taught this lesson to his children who all began their careers in their father’s company driving Caterpillar tractors and laying foundations with regular workers. Also, and liberals don’t want to believe this, but Trump actually paid women in his company equal or even greater wages than men with same position and experience. Think about that one before you want to apply the term progressive somewhere in this campaign.

The media has been wrong every time, and Trump is the first candidate to hold them accountable.

The media itself has failed this election. They’ve spent more time trying to prove their arguments to fit a narrative that Trump is going to burn out like a candle, but almost every single time they’ve tried to do so has ended in failure and embarrassment for the media networks. Trump himself is perhaps the most in-tune Republican candidate since Ronald Reagan, and understands the media’s bias toward him and has often called the media out for attacking him.

The people are tired of being judged by the media.

The American voter is tired of seeing the media take sides, and they’re especially tired of the media’s excuses for being wrong. According to the Guardian, the media has been having such a difficult time predicting Trump because they stopped listening to his strongest voting block: middle class working Americans. Instead media outlets spend more time covering minority groups and millennials, who both represent the smallest voting constituencies in national elections.

Although the media will silence minorities who don't fit their narrative, as represented by MSNBC. The media explained Trump’s rise by calling American voters “racist” which only added fuel to the flames of Trump’s burning wildfire across the nation. Other more intellectual pundits, according to the Guardian, find that neoliberalism has failed the American people under President Obama and Secretary Clinton, and as a result Trump is the return of the pendulum. The media class has further stopped listening to the majority of American voters to focus on special interest groups, but even then try to spin stories to fit their narrative.

For instance, the media couldn’t explain why Trump’s polls numbers with the LGBT community surged after the Pulse nightclub shootings. Why wouldn’t the experienced former Secretary of State, a champion of LGBT rights, draw in this group after such a tragedy? The answer: because Trump was strong in the face of tragedy, but showed his sensitive side to the victims when he promised to make the country safe for all Americans. Overnight his poll numbers spiked across the board, but the media wrote this off as a temporary effect. Trump’s poll numbers are still statistically tied with Clinton nationally, but he maintains key leads in swing states as well as with working Americans.

People are tired of being judged by the media, and Trump represents a crusading figure against the media establishment that demeans and judges voters because of their choices. Media ratings have been dropping further across the board since Trump entered the race.

Trump voters are afraid to admit they’ll vote for him, but they’re out there and there’s a lot of them.

This one especially. It’s been proven that a majority of Trump supporters are afraid to admit they’re going to vote for him in November out of fear of ridicule or stigmatization. But due to Trump’s lead over Hillary Clinton with independents and his overwhelming lead with blue-collar middle class workers, Trump has two of the biggest voting blocks in his pocket. Unfortunately, Trump supporters are often subject to attacks as they walk out of rallies or defamation on college campuses. When was the last time a group of conservatives picketed a Bernie Sanders or Clinton rally and attacked their supporters? They haven’t.

Trump tells it as it is.

Trump doesn’t tip-toe around political correctness. He says things like it is and calls out the liars in the media and within the establishment. Disgruntled voters on both the left and the right are subscribing to this in droves. Many of his supporters appreciate his ability to be blunt with the American people, though at times even they recognize he goes too far. Since his replacement of Corey Lewandowski with Paul Manafort as his campaign manager, Trump’s demeanor has softened and he has become more optimistic. In choosing Governor Mike Pence as his running mate, Trump not only has a unified party but also a second half to work the compassionate side of his campaign to bring in other conservatives and those turned off by his bluntness.

Trump can’t be bought.

People are fed up with lobbyists, special interest groups, and Wall Street bankers owning politicians and running Congress. Hillary Clinton is the embodiment of everything voters hate about Washington. That being said, Trump represents someone who is a fresh start. He is someone who can’t be intimidated, purchased, bribed, or coerced. Trump paid for his own primary campaign out of pocket, and has promised not to use taxpayer money to finance his travels are president. He has no one he owes favors to and no one he needs to please but the American people. And the average American understands that.

Trump is everything everyone wants to be.

All those Bernie Sanders supporters who say they’ll give away all their money to charity if they became billionaires are lying. Let’s face it, everyone wants to be a billionaire. He has everything: cars, mansions, skyscrapers, jets, girls, he has it all. Donald Trump is the Tony Stark of politics. Instead of turning people away because of this, it draws people in because he represents the results of hard work, rugged individualism, and not being afraid to say what he believes. This is why he has the support of working people.

Trump actually discusses legitimate issues, and has solutions.

One thing I’m surprised about people on the left who berate Trump for being a terrible candidate is that they can’t seem to find an ideological reason to oppose Trump. Donald Trump’s policies are a combination of left and the right. He discusses critical issues that have been effecting our country people don’t hear about from the media. Things like free trade (which Trump is an expert on), competitive bidding in the pharmaceutical industry to lower costs for the elderly, and returning jobs to America by ending the destructive tariffs that cause US companies to shift their production, and jobs, to other countries like Mexico and Canada.

Now people say the wall is not the solution to illegal immigration, but neither is amnesty according to Trump. Why reward people who break the law? It only gives them more incentive to come here illegally and steal American jobs according to Trump. American voters believe border security is critically intertwined with national security. The Democratic policy of welcoming in illegal aliens doesn’t attract voters from the left or the right, and Clinton is doing a superb job of avoiding the issue or her own specificity on her own policy issues all together.

Trump has energy, but his opponent does not.

Media attention and energy from the base has propelled Trump where he is now. Trump now has a united Republican Party behind him through Mike Pence and support from independents. He has an energized base that attracts media attention no matter what he does. The Republican National Convention has remained one of the most monitored political events on television since the 2008 Democratic National Convention when then-Senator Obama secured the Democratic nomination.

Look at the Democratic National Convention one week from now: where is the media hype? Hillary Clinton’s fundamental problem is that she cannot attract people due to her low energy campaign. Bernie Sanders’ painful concession to Clinton last week in New Hampshire ruined her chances with Sanders’ millennial voters who felt his endorsement of her and the establishment was a stab in the back by someone they revered as a crusader against corruption who now endorsed the quintessence of corruption.

Aside from the concessions of false idols, Trump’s vice presidential nominee search was one of the most speculated affairs on media in years. Trump’s VP announcement drew every media outlet across the country and given the full attention of the networks. Clinton’s campaign announcement that she was finalizing her VP search this coming Friday was met with lukewarm reception especially with the two names on the list: Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, and Tom Vilsack. Much to the media’s disappointment her finalist list only included two of the lowest-energy liberals in the Democratic Party today. So much for the party of diversity.

Donald Trump can compromise.

Years and years in the business world have taught Trump that you can’t get anything done by being obdurate. Trump has had to compromise to unite the diverse array of Republicans and independents behind him. One example is that he’s recently relented on his Muslim ban, compromising with the party in order to secure the support of national security heads in Congress who’ve compromised with him to establish a vetting process for refugees coming from known terrorist states like Syria. Trump will bring compromise into the White House. He has both Democratic and Republican ideals and it makes him an appealing candidate. He doesn’t belong to the conservative faction, but rather the center. And I believe that’s what we need most of all: a moderate.

So when November comes around, I implore you to do your homework. Don’t listen to CNN, MSNBC, or FOX News. Form your own opinion about Trump. If you’re one of those conservatives who are tired of the lackluster Republican establishment and want change, vote for Trump. If you’re a disenfranchised millennial who hates Hillary Clinton and feels betrayed by the Bern, then I suggest you look into Trump if you truly believe in standing up against the establishment.

In closing, Donald Trump has the possibility to give America what it desperately needs: a breath of fresh air.