Beto O'Rourke to Air TV Ads with Money Raised Off Ted Cruz's Attacks
Beto ORourke, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, is set to start airing TV ads in his race against Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.
ORourkes campaign told supporters Monday, Aug. 13 that it has placed a $1.27 million media buy and voters will start seeing positive TV ads in 20 Texas markets this week. The dollar amount represents how much ORourke, an El Paso congressman, raised two weekends ago in response to Cruzs first round of TV ads, three of which targeted the challenger.
Texans in all 254 counties of our state are proving that together, we will be the big, bold, confident answer to the small, petty, negative attacks that are coming our way, ORourke said in a statement.
Whether ORourke would air TV ads in the race and if so, how extensively has been something of an open question for months. He has expressed ambivalence about the effectiveness of TV ads nowadays and talked about investing heavily in a field operation instead.
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