Tag: Political Advertising

Republican Voters Against Trump Plans $50 Million Ad Campaign

A Republican group dedicated to opposing former President Donald J. Trump is planning to spend $50 million to stop him through a series of homemade testimonial videos of voters who backed him in past elections but say they can no longer support him in 2024. The group, Republican Voters Against Trump, first emerged in the […]

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New Biden Ad Pokes Fun at His Age: ‘I’m Not a Young Guy. That’s No Secret.’

In a new advertisement for his re-election campaign, President Biden tries to take one of his greatest perceived liabilities as a candidate, his age, and turn it into an advantage. “Look, I’m not a young guy. That’s no secret,” says a smiling Mr. Biden, talking directly to the camera. “But here’s the deal: I understand […]

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Meet the Woman Who Helped Pay for That R.F.K. Super Bowl Ad

Super Bowl ads cost a fortune. So when a group backing the presidential bid of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran a 30-second ad for him during Sunday night’s game, the political world took notice. How had the super PAC of a long-shot independent candidate paid for such a costly spot, and whose idea was it […]

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F.C.C. Bans A.I.-Generated Robocalls

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday outlawed unwanted robocalls generated by artificial intelligence, amid growing concerns over election disinformation and consumer fraud facilitated by the technology. The unanimous decision by the F.C.C. cited a three-decade-old law aimed at curbing junk phone calls, clarifying that A.I.-generated spam calls are also illegal. By doing so, the agency […]

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VoteVets Plans $45 Million Push to Lift Biden and Democrats

VoteVets, the liberal political action committee known for supporting veterans running for office, will spend $45 million to back President Biden and Democratic candidates for the House and Senate, Jon Soltz, the group’s co-founder and chairman, said. VoteVets is the latest liberal organization to announce its 2024 plans to back Mr. Biden and other Democratic […]

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How Much Cash Did Ron DeSantis Burn Through Against Trump?

It cost more than $160 million for Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida to come in second place in a single nominating contest. That astounding sum makes Mr. DeSantis’s failed presidential bid among the most expensive in modern Republican primary elections. But the details of where the money went, laid out in filings to the Federal […]

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Biden Super PAC Plans a Historic $250 Million Ad Blitz

The main Democratic super PAC supporting President Biden’s re-election bid, Future Forward, is beginning this week to reserve $250 million in advertising across the most important battleground states, a blitz that it says is the largest single purchase of political advertising by a super PAC in the nation’s history. The ads, which are to be […]

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In the Race to Replace George Santos, National Issues Reverberate

The war in Israel. Abortion rights. Immigration policy. National issues have dominated a special House election to replace George Santos in New York, as Republicans and Democrats take voters’ temperatures on issues that could tip November’s general election. The race pits Tom Suozzi, a former Democratic congressman who represented the Queens and Long Island swing […]

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New Haley Ad to Play Up Her Foreign Policy Expertise, and Subtly Hit Trump

Nikki Haley’s closing argument to New Hampshire primary voters will include a three-minute ad featuring the emotional story of the mother of a college student who died shortly after North Korea released him from captivity in 2017, and whose cause Ms. Haley championed as United Nations ambassador. The ad, which the Haley campaign said would […]

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Do Political Ads Even Matter Anymore?

In a presidential election year, no glowing rectangle in Iowa or New Hampshire is safe from an endless deluge of political ads. Campaign ads are inescapable on the nightly news, “Wheel of Fortune” and YouTube. Even the high-dollar, high-visibility ad blocks of professional and college football games have become increasingly saturated. It’s a deeply entrenched […]

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Republican Presidential Primary: 7 Numbers That Tell the Story

The only numbers that will truly matter in the Iowa caucuses on Monday will be the number of votes tallied for Donald J. Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy. But there are a number of, well, numbers that help explain the Republican nominating contest. In most polls, Mr. Trump holds a solid lead, […]

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Trump’s Dominance and Snowy Weather Put Iowa’s Caucus Economy on Ice

Even before a snowstorm brought Des Moines to a near standstill on Friday, the city felt decidedly more subdued than it usually does around the Iowa caucuses: quiet restaurants, empty streets, bartenders with little to do. The numbers confirm it: The 2024 caucuses are expected to bring less than 40 percent of the direct economic […]

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State Legislators Tighten A.I. Rules to Combat Deceptive Election Ads

When experts in artificial intelligence recently showed a gathering of state legislators a deepfake image that had been generated by A.I. in early 2022, depicting former presidents Donald J. Trump and Barack Obama playing one-on-one basketball, the crowd chuckled at how rudimentary it was. Then the panel brought out a fake video that was made […]

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Vivek Ramaswamy Stops TV Ad Spending

Vivek Ramaswamy, the wealthy entrepreneur seeking the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, has stopped spending money on cable television ads, a campaign representative said on Tuesday. With just weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses kick off the voting for the nomination, Mr. Ramaswamy’s campaign is maintaining its total advertising outlays, Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for […]

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DeSantis Super PAC Cancels Television Ads in Early Nominating States

An influential super PAC supporting the presidential campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is canceling its planned television advertisements for 2024 in the early nominating states of Iowa and New Hampshire. Never Back Down, the deep-pocketed but embattled organization allied with Mr. DeSantis, has canceled $2.5 million worth of ads, according to Ad Impact, […]

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Inside the Troll Army Waging Trump’s Online Campaign

The video, called “Let’s Get Ready to Bumble,” is a slick mash-up of President Biden’s verbal slip-ups and his stumbles set to a thumping 1990s dance track. And when it was played on a big screen at Trump rallies late last year, it consistently drew laughs and jeers from the crowd. But Donald J. Trump […]

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Likening Nikki Haley to Clinton, Ads From Pro-DeSantis Super PAC Fall Short

In Republican politics, being likened to a prominent Democrat like Hillary Clinton may well be among the highest of insults. Some G.O.P. presidential hopefuls and their allies are seizing on that comparison to denounce Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina who has gained momentum in the primary race. During the Republican debate in […]

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Haley and DeSantis Battle on TV as the Race for No. 2 Heats Up

If the Republican presidential candidates’ television advertisements offer a preview of Wednesday night’s debate, viewers can expect harsh accusations flying between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, stinging barbs from Vivek Ramaswamy and earnest, if somewhat contorted, appeals from Chris Christie. It is not clear if the debate will be the final encounter of the top, […]

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Ignore Trump? Democrats Now Want Him Plastered All Over the News.

When Donald J. Trump left the White House, Democrats didn’t want to hear another word from him. President Biden dismissed him as “the former guy.” A party-wide consensus held that he was best left ignored. Three years later, Mr. Biden’s re-election campaign and Democratic officials across the party’s spectrum have landed on a new solution […]

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Is Argentina the First A.I. Election?

The posters dotting the streets of Buenos Aires had a certain Soviet flare to them. There was one of Argentina’s presidential candidates, Sergio Massa, dressed in a shirt with what appeared to be military medals, pointing to a blue sky. He was surrounded by hundreds of older people — in drab clothing, with serious, and […]

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Democrats Spent Heavily on Abortion Ads, Leaning Into Searing Details

In the days before Tuesday’s election, voters across Ohio heard a stark warning in an ad that blanketed the airwaves. “She could be your neighbor, or niece, your sister or daughter,” the ad said, “But if she is raped and gets pregnant, a law in Ohio would force her to have the child.” In Kentucky, […]

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Meta to Require Political Advertisers to Disclose Use of A.I.

Meta spent years figuring out how to handle political advertising across Facebook and Instagram. It put systems into place and developed policies for what types of political ads were and were not allowed on its platforms. But that was before the rise of consumer artificial intelligence. On Wednesday, Meta introduced a new policy to grapple […]

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Why Doug Burgum Is Staying in a Race He Can Afford to Lose

Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota knows that many people, including powerful voices in his own party, think he should quit the Republican presidential primary, abandoning his quixotic bid so that momentum can gather behind a challenger to Donald J. Trump, and ultimately President Biden. “This seems like they’re trying to do the job of […]

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How DeSantis’s Hyper-Online 2024 Campaign Strategy Fell Flat

In early May, as Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida prepared to run for president, about a dozen right-wing social media influencers gathered at his pollster’s home for cocktails and a poolside buffet. The guests all had large followings or successful podcasts and were already fans of the governor. But Mr. DeSantis’s team wanted to turn […]

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Republicans Fear Jordan Speaker Bid Could Cost Them House Majority

In California’s 45th Congressional District, along Western Avenue in Buena Park, a giant billboard is set to display a photograph of Representative Michelle Steel next to former President Donald J. Trump and Representative Jim Jordan, the Republican hard-liner from Ohio she voted for twice this week for speaker. “Rep. Steel Supports Extremism,” the billboard reads. […]

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Biden Will Get $80 Million Ad Boost From Climate Group

Climate Power, a liberal advocacy group, plans to spend $80 million on advertising to lift President Biden’s standing on environmental issues and inform voters about the impact of legislation he signed last year. Polls show few voters are aware of the president’s record on climate issues, and there is a broad dissatisfaction with his stewardship […]

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Republican Group Running Anti-Trump Ads Finds Little Is Working

A well-funded group of anti-Trump conservatives has sent its donors a remarkably candid memo that reveals how resilient former President Donald J. Trump has been against millions of dollars of negative ads the group deployed against him in two early-voting states. The political action committee, called Win It Back, has close ties to the influential […]

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Clarence Thomas Twice Attended Koch Network Donor Summits

Justice Clarence Thomas twice attended an annual donor summit organized by the conservative political network established by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, a spokeswoman for the group confirmed on Friday. The justice’s presence at the summit was earlier reported by ProPublica. The spokeswoman, Gretchen Reiter, said that Justice Thomas had only attended on […]

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Biden Campaign Aims to Calm Worries About His Age

With stubbornly subterranean approval numbers, President Biden is taking early steps to shore up his re-election candidacy with a multipronged strategy that includes a costly advertising campaign and leveraging the powers of the bully pulpit. During his recent trip to India and Vietnam, Mr. Biden’s aides aggressively pushed back on suggestions that he has lost […]

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