A candidate for the White House will begin an advertising campaign.
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Saudi executes 47 prisoners, including top Shiite cleric
The Shia Personal Law Board will hold protest in Lucknow and Mumbai on January 4 and outside Saudi Embassy in Delhi on January 7. It says one of the dissidents, Ali al-Ribh, was 18 when he was arrested in 2012, and another, Mohammed al-Shuyokh, was 19.
How heavily? It’ll be huge, Trump assured reporters, saying he would spend $2 million a week on television ads in Iowa, New Hampshire and SC.
Why did the California elephant seal cross the road?
On Tuesday morning, the Marine Mammal center used a kayak and bullhorns to try and scare the seal back into the ocean. There are many, legitimate questions that can be asked about why the seal wanted to cross the road.
“I will spend a lot of money against the people that go after me”, he warned. It would seem that some social conservatives, including a few now supporting the last two Iowa winners, consider Senator Ted Cruz a “phony opportunist” – and would rather see Senator Marco Rubio do well if their own candidates don’t have an unexpected late surge. The controversial figure has said that, although he did not believe he needed to spend any money, he did not want to take anything for granted. Trump took this jab at the Texas senator, whose father was born in Cuba.
Spearfisher suffers serious injuries fighting off shark in Central Queensland
The man fought off the shark although he suffered lacerations to his arms and legs and is undergoing medical treatment. Paramedics treat the 31-year-old man who was attacked by a shark while spearfishing off Yeppoon in central Queensland.
Donald Trump holds a dominant position in national polls in the Republican race in no small part because he is extremely strong among people on the periphery of the G.O.P. coalition. What’s more, the best way to finish better than Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and John Kasich in New Hampshire would be to be a perceived “winner” in Iowa, which could happen if he finished a strong third, with the others far behind.
Trump has teased plans to advertise on television in the past, but ad buys have failed to materialize.
“Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that his presidential campaign is “$35,000,000 under budget”, boasting that he’s in “first place”, even though he’s “spent very little”.
While Trump likes to claim he’s self-funding his campaign, the vast majority of what he has spent has come from donors across the country sending cheques or purchasing merchandise from his website. “I’ll be spending a minimum of $2 million a week and perhaps substantially more than that”, he said.
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Donald Trump speaks during a town hall meeting during a campaign stop on November 19, 2015, in Newton, Iowa. Holding out until right before the start of the first contests-the Iowa caucuses are less than five weeks away-he ensures that his first TV ads will get maximum exposure at the exact moment he would want it.
