In case you hadn’t caught him on TV already, Donald Trump is now officially running political advertisements.
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Donald Trump released his first television ad of the presidential campaign, saying his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton is synonymous with disorder and illegal immigration.
“Syrian refugees flood in”.
“The real question is how do others beyond the 34 to 40% of the electorate view this particular message as the first major ad push by the Trump campaign?” “Our border open. It’s more of the same, but worse”, the narrator adds, to the tune of somber music playing in the background.
Reports suggest that the Trump campaign will begin linear TV advertising soon and the Republican nominee has been raising money to fund those ad buys.
“Terrorists and unsafe criminals: kept out”.
But according to polling, and despite his messaging, Trump doesn’t own the issue. While Trump is taking to social media himself to communicate directly with his fans, Clinton has a team of insiders handling those interactions, giving the candidate a measure of remove from the social media fray.
The Clinton campaign responded with a almost line-by-line rebuttal of the ad, saying in a statement, “No misleading ad can change the fact that Hillary Clinton is the only candidate with the experience and judgment to lead the country”.
What’s more, Trump’s numbers dropped across several national polls during the weeks following the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in mid-June.
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Respondents in the ABC poll also said that Clinton handled the aftermath of that attack much better than Trump, 46 percent over 28 percent.
