Its about scale. The attention you're talking about is 500, maybe 1000 people, for a month or two as they plan their business and campaign trips. The attention that keeks and I were talking about is worldwide for the next four years.
To your group he's been relevant for a while. To the rest of the world he's been a footnote centered around various types of economic instability.
Deny that as much as you want, doesn't change anything