Posted on 12/31/2015 3:32:12 PM PST by JSDude1
A string of allied “super PACs†supporting the presidential campaign of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is planning a $1 million television, digital and radio advertising buy in the early voting states, with the heaviest spending in Iowa, a spokeswoman for the group said.
The super PACs, both collectively and individually called Keep the Promise, are flush with cash, and this spending is the biggest investment in television advertising that any of them have made this year.
The ad buy includes television advertising in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. By midday Thursday, $700,000 was reserved for television time in Iowa, according to a person at a firm that tracks media spending.
Officials with the group would not say what type of ads would be aired or whether they would be positive about Mr. Cruz or negative about other candidates.
Super PACs pay much higher rates for advertising than candidates do, so the amount of airtime that the $1 million will go toward is far less than what campaigns can get. But candidates have typically relied on these outside groups to focus on attacking rivals.
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“Trump is beholden to nobody. Because he’s yugely rich.”
;-)
So only the rick get to have any political power in the USA then?
*rich
..SHOCK AND AWE.
Is actually $35 million untouched.
That doesn't make him independent. He owns major assets in Istanbul, Dubai, and several other countries where socialist governments could put him in a world of financial hurt. Then too he and his contractors hire YUGE numbers of Mexicans for his hotels, golf courses, casinos, and construction business. After all, he wants to lower the minimum wage and bring back the current illegals as LEGALS on an expedited basis.
Jobs for Americans? Yeah, right.
SHOCK AND AWE.Trump is planning on spending 2 million A WEEK. "SHOCK AND AWE" indeed.
Well, then, I guess Trump is unstoppable and Cruz doesn’t have a chance.
Which leaves us with a mystery-—why do you, troll, and so many other Trump fans swarm Cruz threads as soon as they’re posted?
I mean, he isn’t a threat, right?
Whoops. You’ve seen too much.
No, I think Santorum is good and out of this race...
$2 million a week, at this point in time, leading up to the first primaries, is actually a pretty moderate ad buy. Hardly “SHOCK AND AWE!” Trump has tried to give the impression that it’s a YUUUUUGE buy, because that’s what Trukp does, but it’s not.
Yup it comes down to that one word, beholden
In terms of reaching a huge audience almost immediately, yes.
Free Republic gives YOU the opportunity to reach a huge audience if it can stay afloat financially.
That’s what Trumpbots believe.
No man stands alone in an election Theo...just because Trump says something does not make it so....and we do know he will say whatever to “win”...truth, hyperbole, and as well know lies.
However, the fact he isn’t accountable to anyone is also the same positions dictators take. So I don’t put a lot of weight into the idea he’s saying he’s not accountable.....and as another poster wrote....since when is it ONLY those with wealth that should be considered for Presidential runs.
( tee he he!)
LOL, yeah...that’s presidential material, all right. Sheesh.
Did you see post #71 on that thread? Cruz is called the “Christian taliban.”
Oops, post 76, not 71.
Here’s Prior where Trump beats the other owner of a fighter...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NsrwH9I9vE
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