BREAKING: Trump going dark in the midwest

[brooklynite]

Buzzfeed News

President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is slashing television spending in the Midwest, canceling millions of dollars in advertising in states that carried him to victory in 2016.

He’s been off the local airwaves completely in Iowa and Ohio. The campaign also has given up at least $2 million worth of reservations in both Michigan and Wisconsin since early September. And in Minnesota, a state Trump almost won four years ago and has expressed confidence in flipping, his team already has chopped about $5 million from its projected fall TV budget.

The numbers, confirmed by the media firm Advertising Analytics, reflect a race where Democrat Joe Biden has gained a fundraising advantage over Trump and where polling suggests these states are competitive toss-ups or tipping toward Biden. The Trump campaign, meanwhile, according to data shared by Democratic ad trackers, has in recent weeks boosted its TV presence in the Sun Belt battlegrounds — Arizona, Florida, and Georgia — and Nevada, a state Trump lost in 2016.

As Trump’s retreat in Iowa and Ohio became more pronounced this week, his advisers dismissed it as a sign of strength, despite polls that show him essentially tied with Biden in both states. And Biden’s campaign has accelerated its advertising in Ohio, which at the beginning of the 2020 cycle many Democrats did not believe would be a top-tier swing state.

Remember when Trump was pledging to put $100 M of his own money into the race?

[kimbutgar]

1. Is the Russian fix in?

[Statistical]

4. more like Trump is dumb enough to surround himself with conmen

and everyone has been stealing from the campaign. Trump has but so has everyone else.

[bearsfootball516]

5. His campaign is broke.

[NoMoreRepugs]

6. This is how I am interpreting this move. Don't spend where u KNOW u are going to win.

I absolutely hope I am wrong and just being paranoid, BUT the RePutinicans will do ANYTHING to retain power.

[brooklynite]

9. Please tell us how Trump "knows" he's going to win in these States.

[brooklynite]

7. What fix would that be?

[kimbutgar]

11. Suppressing/ disqualifying votes and changing those voting machines totals.

Red states with repuke governors, legislatures and SOS’s are corrupted.

Don’t forget he floated the ideas of making electors vote for him despite the state totals.

[brooklynite]

13. Dewine is a Republican but not particularly pro-Trump

And there's no evidence that vote totals have been changed.

[Iwasthere]

19. Do you remember this:

"I was startled to hear the reporter detail how Karen Hughes had earlier sat George W. Bush down to inform him that he'd lost the election. The exit polls were clear: Kerry was winning in a landslide. "Bush took the news stoically," That was around midnight. I will never forget it. I watched the flipping.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2004/11/06/evidence-mounts-vote-may-have-been-hacked

[brooklynite]

41. I remember talking to the Executive Director of the Ohio Democratic Paty...

...and asking her directly...

...and having her say “no”.

I also remember Democrats winning in Ohioan on those same voting machines.

[helpisontheway]

20. I thought that before but lately he has sounded like a Trumpie. Nt

[Turin_C3PO]

31. The conspiracy theories

about vote switching are tiresome. If they were really switching votes, Obama wouldn’t have been a two term president and the 2018 blue tsunami would never have occurred.

[W_HAMILTON]

35. Oh, no, Dewine is certainly pro-Trump.

Just because he hasn't acted like one of the cultists when it comes to COVID doesn't mean that he isn't pro-Trump. I believe CNN interviewed him sometime in the past week or so and he said that he supported Trump in the presidential election.

[Baltimike]

10. That's the first thing I thought too...but once bitten twice shy. nt

[GulfCoast66]

17. No. They've burned thru a billion in cash.

Much of it on grift. And the huge influx of cash in late summer they were counting in never came.

They have to defend in ‘safe’ places.

Nothing nefarious. Just economic.

[pat_k]

45. More likely their confidence in ensuring enough Biden votes are not cast or counted.

Post downthread
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214238587#post44

[Hamer555]

2. Its looking like he doesn't have any of his own money to put in the race.

[Stallion]

3. Save Alabama and Mississippi

[chriscan64]

8. He'll glady pay you Tuesday

for some commercial time today.

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. He's saving money for court battles, that's all he has left. Nt

[W_HAMILTON]

36. Hah, that's an interesting take on it!

Never thought about that before...

[Johnny2X2X]

14. Trump has to go all in in TX, GA, and PA

He’s leaving states that are toss ups because he has no choice.

He has to stay in FL too.

[lagomorph777]

24. PA is beyond reach for him.

[Johnny2X2X]

25. The he's lost.

He has to win PA or WI or MI and WI and MI are looking more bleak than PA.

[tinrobot]

15. He's saving the money for himself.

He's got a $400 million debt to pay.

[onetexan]

46. i wouldn't put it past the Con

[PaxtonSahara]

16. He's a grifter

I think he doesn't want to waste money that he could keep for himself. He's gonna need it to fight lawsuits and pay off debt.

[Wanderlust988]

30. This

He's stealing the money to pay off his own personal debts. Why throw good money out of the window on silly ads when you can use it to pay off your debts?

[Dr. Jack]

18. Because he has no money

I don't care what his campaign claims or any pledges he has made about spending his own funds. They are broke and no one is going to bail them out, including Trump

[whopis01]

21. Trump has never had $100 M of his own money.

It has always been someone else's money.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Oh He Had His Own Money

Operative word is had. Past tense.
He squandered a giant inheritance and huge "loans" from daddy.
He failed at finance. No wonder he didn't get an MBA. Staying in school could have held off real life for a year & a half.
But, he couldn't get into grad school.
He probably failed finance in college, too.

[cbdo2007]

22. I think he's trying to get fewer votes to help his "fraud" case.

If he loses by less than the polls project that will give him ammo to say there was fraud.

[helpisontheway]

23. I remember when the media was playing up how much money the Trump campaign had..

They acted like the dem candidate did not have any chance to catch up. Nt

[SoonerPride]

26. The campaign is either broke or he plans on stealing all the money and running to another country

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

28. He's moving the campaign from the electorate to the court system.

He may slash television ads, but is he slashing his legal staff?

[Buckeyeblue]

29. I think he is just trying to keep it from being a landslide

Then he can claim there is voter fraud. If it's a landslide, he can't really claim anything.

[Beakybird]

32. If Biden carries WI, MI, AZ, and ME2, he can lose PA.

It's checkmate.

[MyMission]

33. But Super PACs are still funding ads, against Dems

And special interest groups are also funding ads, against Biden and local candidates, so it's not like going dark means there are no ads running there for them, just not ones paid for by the campaign.

So instead of hearing "this ad was approved/paid for by the candidate" it says "paid for by this group or that group," sometimes even giving disclaimer the candidate did not approve it.

Still, his campaign doesn't have the funds that Biden or the Dems do, between donations from fired up supporters and Bloomberg's contributions to the cause, which is freedom from fascism here in the US!

This weekend I found some local repub propaganda left in my back screen door days before. 3 pieces, including 1 door handle medium sized sign for tRump, a sheet listing the conservative candidates to vote for, and a chart contrasting repug vs Dem values and agendas. My town and county is 60% red. Their list of who to vote for will be very helpful to me, knowing who NOT to vote for. Lol And they included school board candidates, which are/should be non partisan, but again, it tells me who not to vote for.

[sarcasmo]

34. The Deutsche Bank well has closed.

[muriel_volestrangler]

37. Remember when people believed Trump had $100m of his own money?

At best, he'd have to sell all his property, and pay off all the loans, and then maybe, under former valuations, he might have netted $100m. But now everyone would see he's desperate, and force the price down.

[mnmoderatedem]

38. that makes no sense to me

Unless I'm mistaken, Iowa and Ohio are states that polls show are still in play

Living in Minnesota, I have indeed noticed a drop off in trump tv ads. Quite nice.

[roamer65]

39. The Russians are pulling the plug.

[OnDoutside]

40. They made noises about "ending the cyber war" recently, and even

Facebook are suddenly clearing out the Qanon crowd...looks like they are trying to tidy things up.

[roamer65]

42. THIS.

[SKKY]

43. Have they given up and are trying to save the Senate??

Sounds like it to me.

[pat_k]

44. They know they're on track eliminate at least 5% of Biden votes. . .

That is why they are confident in states that are almost tied.

The polls assume those polled will be able to easily cast their vote and have that vote counted.

That assumption does not hold.

Unless Biden has a double-digit lead in a state, the state is at risk given how effectively they have been at erecting barriers that disproportionately stop Biden voters from casting their vote, disqualifying ballots from Biden strongholds, and intimidating voters in those strongholds with their threatening phone calls (and more direct intimidation on election day).

[Blue Owl]

47. Lower the lights, close the casket... Donny is dead...

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[Initech]

48. That's a bold strategy.