Bloomberg to Spend $100 Million on Anti-Trump Ad Blitz

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2019/11/15/bloomberg-to-spend-100-million-on-anti-trump-ads/

Bloomberg to Spend $100 Million on Anti-Trump Ad Blitz
November 15, 2019 at 7:14 am EST By Taegan Goddard

“Michael Bloomberg still has not declared whether he is running for president in 2020. He is about to become the single biggest spender in the presidential race anyway,” the New York Times reports.

“Ahead of a potential campaign announcement, Mr. Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and former mayor of New York City, is beginning a $100 million digital campaign designed to attack and define President Trump in the top battleground states seen as likely to decide the 2020 election. The ads will go online on Friday in four states — Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — and run through the end of the primary season, even if Mr. Bloomberg is not in the race.”

[Skidmore]

1. Bloomberg is not needed as a candidate.

If he and Stiers want to help, by media to support in this manner and not self promote.

[cbdo2007]

14. The point is to take votes away from Trump so the Dem candidate can win.

Bloomberg doesn't want to be President but he knows we need to get evil Trump out of there any way we can.

[tman]

2. Well needed imo

Trump has a big advantage in this area.

[mucifer]

3. yes! While I don't appreciate being a pawn in this kind of billionaire game these are

desperate times and their billionaires are putting out pro trump ads. I am glad our billionaires are putting out anti trump ads.

Please don't run Bloomberg.

[patricia92243]

4. This is what he really needs to do - back Democrats with his pocketbook. He

made a really good speech at the Democratic Convention last time, and I wish they had used clips from it to advertise.

I look forward to seeing them soon - I guess they will be here or UTube.

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[NewJeffCT]

9. Bloomberg has been great behind the scenes

He's donated a ton of money to gun control groups, which have helped them pass many local and statewide gun control measures across the country.

He's also supposedly been working with some tech people to micro-target Democratic voters in order to help GOTV - to counteract whatever Cambridge Analytica is calling themselves these days.

[patricia92243]

5. I just re-read this article. How on earth would a person spend 100M on a DIGITAL

ad campaign. Plus, they will not be as effective as TV.

[2naSalit]

7. Billboards! Those are effective...

probably more than they are credited for as they are a kind of passive aggressive/in-you-face sort of thing.

[patricia92243]

10. Never thought of billboards as being digital. Of course, they are now.

[2naSalit]

11. Well, those too

but I was thinking that "digital only" is pretty limiting.

[Dem4Life1102]

13. They will against younger voters

Most major advertisers spend as much or more on digital ads, which includes video, as on traditional or what is called linear TV.

[Captain Zero]

8. Bloomberg has the credentials and could get the security clearance for cabinet post /ambassadorship

I don't think he is the top choice for a Dem presidential victory.
As far as how he spends his money that is his business.

[bdamomma]

12. Why doesn't

Bloomberg focus on Fox Noise and trying to put out commercials on what propaganda does to a society.

[Johnny2X2X]

15. He wants to take Trump down

Maybe he is “running” so he can donate as much money to his own campaign as he wants.