Posted on 10/24/2016 9:23:19 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced Monday that his campaign will broadcast a nightly program on Facebook Live that will run until Election Day.
The campaign will air the program at 6:30 p.m. from Trump Tower in New York City. The half-hour coverage will go live right before Trump’s 7 p.m. rallies, Trump’s advisers Boris Epshteyn and Cliff Sims told Politico. The show will also include conservative pundit from The Blaze Tomi Lahren.
The debut episode Monday night will interview Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and adviser Jason Miller, according to Wired. Politico notes that Sean Spicer, chief strategist for the Republican National Committee (RNC) will also join the program.
During the video, Epshteyn and Sims said the tool is a way for the campaign to harness Trump's large social media following and bypass traditional media, which the GOP nominee and his surrogates frequently bash as dishonest and biased toward Hillary Clinton.
Trump’s Facebook page gives his presidential campaign a significant platform. The campaign hosted a Facebook Live on the third and final presidential debate in Las Vegas, which garnered 9 million viewers according to Wired.
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Great idea, should’ve done this two months ago
Smart.
Good. Stop paying enemedia with ad dollars.
Agreed. This is the first election that pits MSM vs. social media. Who will win? Hopefully us!
“The campaign hosted a Facebook Live on the third and final presidential debate in Las Vegas, which garnered 9 million viewers”
Impressive. Meet The Press with Chuck Todd has 3.5 million viewers on a good day.
O’Reilly has around 3 million viewers and CNN’s top show (A. Cooper) doesn’t do better than 1.3 Million.
Tomi Lahren - Excellent!
The Revolution is ON!
Vote Trump!
Trump should have a virtual "rally for America" using the long format, and/or put together a "pitch" for a "deal" with the American People, and sell all these great policies to those who voters who are persuadable. That, along with appropriate reminders regarding the plethora of Hillary's crimes.
If Donald Trump does that, and each of his supporters does what he or she can can do, then it could have a significant effect.
I, for one, hope that all the American People care enough about their country take an honest, realistic look at their situation, and realize that Donald Trump is by far the better choice.
I sincerely pray that God grants wisdom to the American People collectively at this critical moment.
The Revolution is ON!
Vote Trump!
P.S. What would the facebook link for these Trump "newscasts" be?
Trump Live on Monday has had over 1.3 million views so far.
Yes !
Social Media long ago crushed TeeVee media for viewers. I’ve noted Trumps Twitter followers has been growing about 50,000 per day since second debate.
No one I know under 40 watches TeeVee news. Watching ads on TeeVee news, it becomes obvious that the only people watching TeeVee news regularly are over 60.
The Establishment is playing by a outdated playbook. They are only listening to their echo chamber of misinformation and fail to see the tsunami rapidly approaching.
It speaks to Trump’s flexibility and wisdom that his core team consists of young quantitative social media experts. Trump might be a “70 year old geezer” but he clearly understands times change and knows how to build a winning team in a rapidly changing landscaoe.
Old media was touting the ‘chaos’ and ‘dysfunction’ within the Trump campaign when he fired top people and reorganized. Those of us who have built wining business teams recognized Trump was being decisive and focused. We recognized Trump wasn’t allowing marginal players to remain.
Meanwhile over in Hillary land, wikileaks revealed it takes 8 hours and a couple of dozen emails plus a bunch of phone calls among the upper most echelon of Hillary’s team to send out one Twitter message.
It’s not even close
[Watching ads on TeeVee news, it becomes obvious that the only people watching TeeVee news regularly are over 60.]
The 60+ have turned them off too.
Thanks.
HOORAY Donald J Trump
There’s Lou Dobbs for us over sixty geezers.
I love this idea since the “low information voter”, especially young ones, all are addicted to social media and their smartphones. Much easier to reach them this way than with commercials on TV (which they mostly zone out/don’t watch anyway).
He is a smart man with his finger on the pulse of what’s going on.
This is the news story of the week. I think you’re seeing the birth of a new Trumpist pseudo network. It will cost little and will make an end run around the media. The Nightly News, with Donald Trump.
Why spend the money to set up your own infrastructure when you can use someone else’s? That you’re going against the media narrative and using their infrastructure to do so is just delicious.
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