Posted on 01/14/2020 1:35:13 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Hillary Clinton tried. So did 16 rival Republicans. And after hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on ads attacking Donald Trump in 2016, the results were the same: They never did much damage.
Now Michael R. Bloomberg is trying — his way — spending millions each week in an online advertising onslaught that is guided by polling and data that he and his advisers believe provide unique insight into the president’s vulnerabilities.
The effort, which is targeting seven battleground states where polls show Trump is likely to be competitive in November, is just one piece of an advertising campaign that is unrivaled in scope and scale. On Facebook and Google alone, where Bloomberg is most focused on attacking the president, he has spent $18 million on ads in the last month, according to Acronym, a digital messaging firm that works with Democrats.
That is on top of the $128 million the Bloomberg campaign has spent on television ads, according to Advertising Analytics, an independent firm, which projects that Bloomberg is likely to spend a combined $300 million to $400 million on advertising across all media before the Super Tuesday primaries in early March.
Those amounts dwarf the ad budgets of his rivals, and he is spending at a faster clip than past presidential campaigns as well. Bloomberg is also already spending more than the Trump campaign each week to reach voters online. And if the $400 million estimate holds, that would be about the same as what President Barack Obama’s campaign spent on advertising over the course of the entire general election in 2012.
The ads amount to a huge bet by the Bloomberg campaign that there are enough Americans who are not too fixed in their opinions of Trump and can be swayed by the ads’ indictment
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The lamestream media trashes President Trump all day every day. We are not that easily fooled Mr. Blumberg.
Little Michael forgets Trump punches back....hard.
Bloomberg silly girl.
Is it a good year to invest in media stocks?
Spend all your money, shorty. Answer me this. Why the hell does a rich bastard like you want to spend his money to dump Trump? Do you really hate the country that much? is soros going to give you money to replace what you spend?
You’re going to lose, you realize?
I can’t think of a better way to piss away millions of bucks.
Well, actually i can.
Go Mikey Go!
I heard someone suggest that we all look for bloomer’s ads on facebook, and flag them all as abusive.
This gives more credence to the conjecture that Bloomberg is simply trying to bypass campaign finance laws. None of the people that he is supposedly running against in the Democrat primaries is Donald Trump.
Obama spent $775 million to get elected.
Hillary spent $565 million to get elected.
Trump spent $322 million to get elected.
Doomberg thinks the office can be bought.
Trump is about to serve him up a massive dose of reality.
The MSM is trying to get Trump to waste his money fighting someone who isn’t going to get the nomination.
And they pocket the change thank you.
Wouldn’t take much to negate all this advertising. Little Mikey wants to take away your soft drinks and he wants to take away your guns. He thinks he can buy your vote.
Apparently Mini Mike is saturated with self hate.
ROFL!
I was just thinking the same thing.
There’s gonna be an advertising job BOOM in the next year.
That’ll help Trump even more! :)
Attack ads?
How about blaming Trump for the Dow at 29,000?
How about record low unemployment?
I know! Blame Trump for killing Obammie’s terrorist friend; Soliemani?
For making utter fools of Pelosi, Schiff and the House of Retards?
Gee - the possibilities are endless.
“OK Bloomer.”
We’re sick of this little weasel’s attack ads already, and we ignore them.
People are getting so sick and tired of this and I don’t believe that many pay attention to these ridiculous ads.
If he’s serious, he should spend $30 billion on ads.
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