Trump plots big TV ad blitz that could change campaign landscape

[brooklynite]

Source: Fox News

When Donald Trump and his team were planning his presidential campaign, they drew up a budget of $25 million for television advertising in the third quarter of this year.

They wound up spending zero for the rest of 2015.

That is about to change. Sources in the Trump camp say they will soon launch a major ad blitz that could cost at least $2 million a week, and possibly several times that.

The initial wave of ads will focus on Trump’s vision and his stance on key issues—no bio spots necessary for the celebrity candidate—but that could change if any GOP rivals target him with negative commercials. “If you attack Trump, he will attack you 10 times as hard,” an adviser says. “We will not allow any attack to go unanswered.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/28/trump-plots-big-tv-ad-blitz-that-could-change-campaign-landscape.html

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One question was whether Trump would invest any money in turning his fan base into actual votes. There seems to be an answer.

[oberliner]

1. This could actually be his undoing

If his people were smart, they would spend the money on getting out their voters. TV ads are really not going to do anything but hurt him. He's got all the free publicity he needs. They are going to oversaturate and it will backfire.

[Grassy Knoll]

2. Trump's First Ad - Do You Feel It?

[LS_Editor]

3. Things are about to get a whole lot darker.

[trillion]

8. yep

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

4. Trump ,Christie and those newspapers !

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Trump attacks publisher of largest New Hampshire newspaper
Associated Press By KATHLEEN RONAYNE
2 hours ago

ASHUA, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire's largest newspaper, the Union Leader, is the latest target of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's attacks against the news media.

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"You have a very dishonest newspaper, it's also a failing newspaper," Trump told a New Hampshire crowd Monday before going on a freewheeling tirade against the paper, McQuaid and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whom the paper endorsed in November. Trump has frequently gone after media outlets throughout his campaign, often criticizing reporters during his rallies and on social media.

In the editorial, McQuaid said New Hampshire voters will be smarter than to elect Trump in the state's Feb. 9 primary.

He cited Trump's earlier claims that Sen. John McCain, who was held prisoner during the Vietnam War, is not a war hero and his comments mocking fellow GOP candidate Carly Fiorina's appearance.










http://news.yahoo.com/trump-attacks-publisher-largest-hampshire-newspaper-021334195--election.html

[trillion]

7. That infantile little man never stops proving why he shoulnd't be president.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Who will bell the cat?

that could change if any GOP rivals target him with negative commercials. “If you attack Trump, he will attack you 10 times as hard,” an adviser says. “We will not allow any attack to go unanswered.”

[trillion]

6. I doubt that. The people not voting for him right now are not voting for him for a reason.

I doubt watching more crazy is going to change their minds into voting for him. The guy's adept at turning whole segments of the population against him everytime he opens his mouth.

[GreatGazoo]

9. $2 mil per week is not all that much

Unless that is all spent in primary states.

For comparison, GEICO spends about $1.2 bil annually, about $23 mil per week.

[kacekwl]

10. I wonder if Fox is going

to give him the Friends & Family discount on his ads.