Sounds like a lot,but Hillary has taken in 10x that and spent a lot on the nuts and bolts of campaigns as well as some very good targeted TV ads.
It would be difficult to spend the money for Trump in the brief time available because the ad space may not be available if Hillary bought it all up and the production of ads and other traditional nuts and bolts takes time.
“...the ad space may not be available if Hillary bought it all up...”
If that’s the case, then Trump should go around the media, and go directly to the public via YouTube. I would suggest that he put out spots that are more like ‘talks’, and not traditional campaign commercials.
He needs to be filmed in a comfortable setting, speaking directly to the camera about his plans, policies, goals, etc.
I’d like to see him do one of these for each one of the policy papers he’s released. He should do others for breaking events that are impacting the race.
I think videos like these would get tens of millions of hits, and would reach people that can’t be reached through the mainstream media.
He’s smart enough to figure it out, I’m sure.
He was starting with a serious disadvantage, ad-buy-wise, unfortunately. Networks hate him; he had to deal with the primaries; and Hillary only had a rigged primary that wasn’t difficult at all, letting her people get everything set up already.
It is illegal for the networks to deny one side.