Of course they are. Reality shows make money and they want in on the next one once he’s done with his months-long commercial disguised as a campaign.
http://blogs.rollcall.com/news/clinton-vulnerable-to-attack-ads-among-millennials/?dcz=
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton slips 5, 7, and 8 points with millennial voters in matchups against Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz when hit with just one attack ad, according to a Republican research firm that uses the same kind of randomized control groups that clinical drug trials do.
Younger voters were key to Barack Obama’s victories, of course, and Adam Schaeffer, chief science officer of Evolving Strategies, said Clinton appears to be surprisingly vulnerable with that demographic, especially given that the ad used in the test “was pretty lame and muddled in my opinion, but was the best thing out there.”
Control Attack Impact
Trump 34.6% 39.4% 4.8%
Cruz 37.7% 46.0% 8.4%
Rubio 43.8% 50.6% 6.8%
We already know that younger voters favor Clinton’s Democratic primary rival Sen. Bernard Sanders by large margins - and that millennials don’t reliably turn out to vote.
But Schaeffer argues that the findings should concern the Clinton campaign because she will need those voters to win. The attack ad used in the test, which was sponsored by the Stop Hillary PAC, focuses on Clinton’s handling of the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi - an issue that isn’t particularly potent with younger voters, who generally aren’t as concerned about terrorism as older voters.
The control group saw a Coke commercial “with cute little animals” - puffins and polar bears - cracking open a soda.
The 2012 GOP nominee, Mitt Romney, pulled in around 37.5 percent of voters aged 18 to 34, which means Cruz is at parity with Romney, Trump is behind where Romney was with those voters, and Rubio outperforms. Even with the impact of the ad taken into account, Trump barely exceeds Cruz’s baseline with younger voters, and falls well short of Rubio’s.
Trump’s numbers change the least, too, which is not terribly surprising since both the billionaire businessman and the criticism of him are already quite well known..........
The ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5c0SX4Twvg