Trump Spends 9-in-10 Advertising Dollars Defending States He Won

[brooklynite]

Source: Bloomberg

President Donald Trump is spending nearly all of his advertising money to keep states he won in 2016, playing a game of defense in areas a Republican incumbent should be able to count on.

More than 92% of his state-based spending in the month of July is in states he won in 2016, according to a Bloomberg analysis of television advertising data compiled by Advertising Analytics.

Joe Biden, leading in all national polls, is spending in seven key states that Trump won in 2016, too, banking on at least some of them swinging Democratic with widespread voter dissatisfaction over Trump’s handling of the coronavirus and the accompanying economic crash.

“It would be fair to say that Trump winning this time would be a bigger upset than 2016,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Yes, he’s the incumbent, but 2020 is not the year you’d want to be running for president as an incumbent — and that would be true whether it was Trump or someone else.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-28/trump-spends-9-in-10-advertising-dollars-defending-states-he-won?utm_source=url_link

[soothsayer]

1. Bwahaha

[Yeehah]

2. I'm in South Dakota temporarily

and I see a Trump ad on Roku TV and the ad doesn't even have Trump in it, just Pence. God-awful ad.

[Mike 03]

3. That's fascinating that he's running ads in South Dakota.

I agree about the Trump ads I've heard on Satellite radio. They are so low class and trashy and melodramatic.

[IronLionZion]

7. Is it for fundraising or for votes?

These assholes have been hitting up their supporters with fear and insults trying to get more donations. But it would be totally sweet if they are worried about losing rural red states like South Dakota.

[Yeehah]

9. It's an ad for votes

I'm not sure who paid for it. It's one of the "culture war" type ads but only has Pence in it.

[FBaggins]

4. Not sure why that's a surprise

Even if it were a tighter race... you would expect an incumbent to focus broadly on what got him over the line last time and narrowly on one or two places that might be close. Conversely... if Biden focused merely on states that Clinton won, he would have no path to victory

[groundloop]

6. Yep.... If tRump wins every state he won 4 years ago, well, that would suck.

It's kind of a no brainer that tRump would be spending money in states that he won, because "winning" those states got him into the White House.

But what's missing in the OP (due to the 4 paragraph limit) is that fact that he's spending heavily in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio, states that should be easy wins for a 'normal' GOPer candidate.

[redstatebluegirl]

5. I have been seeing ads here in Oklahoma for crying out loud.

This is as state where he could shoot someone in downtown OKC and they would still vote for him at 60 percent.

[beachbumbob]

8. captain obvious, as trump has ZERO chances to win states he LOST

[AleksS]

10. Well he only has to win the states he won before though, right?

He doesn’t have to take any more territory to win again, just successfully defend what he won before, so I’m kind of surprised 100% isn’t going into “defense” states.

[GOPricklepants]

11. He's spending in Ohio, that I believe he won by 8 points.

I keep seeing scared home invasion grandma not getting her call answered by 911.

[democrattotheend]

12. That doesn't seem like a big deal on its face

Trump won over 300 electoral votes in 2016, so he has no need to expand the map. Did Obama spend any money in 2012 in states he lost in 2008?