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RandySF

(57,636 posts)
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 10:34 PM Jun 2020

Trump Campaign Runs Ads In D.C. for Trump to See

“With their boss growing increasingly agitated with the state of his re-election campaign and with the efforts of Republican critics to undermine it, President Trump’s team hatched a plan. They’d run a series of hard-hitting ads and place them on networks that they knew the president and congressional Republicans would watch,” the Daily Beast reports.

“And so, over the past month, the Trump campaign has spent slightly more than $400,000 on cable news ads in the Washington, D.C., area, buying time largely on Fox News but with some smaller buys on CNN and MSNBC as well… The ads began running in late May and are scheduled through June 23. It is, on a purely electoral level, a remarkably quixotic use of campaign cash. The purchases have no real shot of moving D.C., Maryland, or Virginia into the Trump column.”



https://politicalwire.com/2020/06/08/trump-campaign-runs-ads-in-d-c-to-ease-trumps-anxieties/


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Trump Campaign Runs Ads In D.C. for Trump to See (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2020 OP
Kiss ass (n/t) PJMcK Jun 2020 #1
Next they will be putting up yard signs IllinoisBirdWatcher Jun 2020 #2
🤣🤣🤣🤣 SheltieLover Jun 2020 #3
if it keeps him quiet it's worth it. stillcool Jun 2020 #4
Great! Waste that money! Takket Jun 2020 #5
Trump 2020: Transitioning to Civilian Life John Fante Jun 2020 #6
Ha ha ha ha ha! fleur-de-lisa Jun 2020 #7
Every insider item talks about Trump like he's a spoiled brat gratuitous Jun 2020 #13
How very special for a special little man Blue Owl Jun 2020 #8
The DC vote must be critical to his campaign's electoral college strategy! Maybe they hope to flip struggle4progress Jun 2020 #9
Basically a bribe to Fox, then. Tanuki Jun 2020 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author morillon Jun 2020 #11
I'm sure they have plenty of money to waste on his ego. herding cats Jun 2020 #12

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
4. if it keeps him quiet it's worth it.
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 10:41 PM
Jun 2020

they should put him in a room with all his favorite pictures of himself, and just run video's of all his rallies, and all his tv appearances 24/7, his huge crowds. He might never come out.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
13. Every insider item talks about Trump like he's a spoiled brat
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 11:56 PM
Jun 2020

And I don't mean he's "like" a spoiled brat.

struggle4progress

(118,039 posts)
9. The DC vote must be critical to his campaign's electoral college strategy! Maybe they hope to flip
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 11:05 PM
Jun 2020

Mayor Bowser!

Or maybe Parscale just gets paid per ad buy ...

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herding cats

(19,549 posts)
12. I'm sure they have plenty of money to waste on his ego.
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 11:54 PM
Jun 2020

It's not as if he's tanking in the polls in swing states they need to flood with ads, right? Oh, umm, yeah... carry on Trump campaign. 🤣

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