Trump's final ad buy shows just how broke his campaign really is -$55 million/11 states over 2 wks

[sunonmars]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/19/1987809/-Trump-s-final-ad-buy-shows-just-how-broke-his-campaign-really-is?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=Sendible&utm_campaign=RSS

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On a call Monday, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien revealed the campaign’s total ad buy for the last two weeks of the presidential race would be a whopping a paltry $55 million ... split between no fewer than 11 states.

Um, just wow. And that's not only the Trump campaign, it represents coordinated spending with the Republican National Committee (RNC) too. Far from being a muscular way to close out the race, it feels more like a cry for help. By comparison, Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said last week that she still anticipates raising another $234 million through the election.
The 11 states included on the target list for both entities are: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine-2, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

“We are looking at a very wide map right now,” Becca Siegel, the Biden campaign’s chief analytics officer, said. “Normally at this stage of the campaign, we would be narrowing in. But at this stage of the campaign, we have a lot of pathways that have opened up.”

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This is not going to go very far........Biden is going to swamp him with over $300 million in ads.

GOP seem to have given up on Nebraska-2 also Minnesota.

[helpisontheway]

1. This tells me that the Biden campaign does not believe that Texas will flip this year

No spending in Texas during the final days. Plus Biden has not been there. I know Jill was down there. Hopefully, Beto and others will be able to help down ballot..

[sunonmars]

2. They already gave texas dems $5M to work with, i suppose they want to make sure

they get to 270 with the more obvious flips, if it happens in Texas, it will happen.

[helpisontheway]

3. Oh okay.. nt

[mucifer]

4. The Lincoln Project is spending 1 million dollars in final weeks in Texas. They are targeting right

wing areas trying to peel off 1 in 25 of the trump voters feeling that will along with other democratic groups working in Texas, win us the state.

I heard this on their podcast last night.

They were pretty optimistic about Texas.

[Mellomugwump]

5. I remember that in 2016...

Hillary got alot of criticism for campaigning in Arizona and not focusing more on Wisconsin, Michigan, OH, etc. And then of course losing those states....or rather probably having them stolen.

[NoMoreRepugs]

6. In today's digital world things can change damn near instantly

I would think if Texas continues to trend our way they will throw a couple million at it.