Trump pulls all ads again out of Iowa/Ohio, all cancelled again for another week.

[sunonmars]

Link to tweet

The Trump campaign is also again canceling TV ad schedules that had been booked in Ohio for 9/29-10/5

[kimbutgar]

1. Maybe the hackers are ready to have Ohio win for him?

[rzemanfl]

3. Why spend money when he can just cheat? n/t

[brush]

8. Or his campagin is really as broke as reports are saying.

The demoted Pascale, who is still with the campaign, after bleeding millions from from it, was holded up in his house after allegedly beating his wife and threatening suicide. He has now reportedly been taken into custody by police.

But everything is all right with the campaign. Nothing to see there. They've got plenty of money.

[Aristus]

2. I wonder if the current tax kerfuffle will push Ohio further into the blue column.

If ever there was a "We work for a living around here" state, it's Ohio.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Meh

I keep hearing this stuff, but this could be normal. And I heard he was abandoning MI too, but I see ads all day long on TV from his campaign.

[Siwsan]

6. I wondered about that. Maybe the Michigan ads had already been paid for, so they ran.

I've seen a couple, but they aren't running very often. I see FAR more Biden ads. Same with the Peters vs James - far more ads running for Peters.

[Statistical]

7. Cutting ads in the final 30 days of an election is never normal.

Now that doesn't mean he can't win Ohio even with reduced ad buys but none of this is normal. It is about as un-normal as someone I don't know paying $750 in taxes while claiming to be a successful billionaire.

[oswaldactedalone]

10. You can run ads on cable shows

and skip the local stations. Just as effective. Plus, Trump believes he Facebook and Youtube are more influential than TV ads these days anyway. Add to that, while Dems have abandoned the door to door contacts to persuade voters d/t covid, Trump's people are out in force. This is one of the things that bothers me.

[BannonsLiver]

13. It's not normal to go dark for a week in the stretch run of any campaign

Whether it’s a race for dog catcher or POTUS.

[Statistical]

5. Trump's campaign is just as broke as Trump is.

[Inablueway]

9. Could be a number of reasons

Maybe they feel like they have these states locked up and are moving the money to other states. Or could be they feel them slipping away. Hard to know.

[greenjar_01]

15. If he loses Ohio and Iowa, the race is completely over anyway

It's not like they can shift that to other states.

It's reasonable to think that they feel they're locked up, but they might as well throw in the towel if they're pulling money because they think those states are lost.

[Le Roi de Pot]

11. He is investing in lawyers to contest the election

[meadowlander]

12. His remaining paths to reelection don't depend on convincing people to vote for him

so why spend money on it?

[beachbumbob]

14. between money issues and internal polling, most likely explain, I don;t fall for

handwringing conspiracy stuff of stealing the elections crap.