Former Vice President Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Saturday released a new digital ad in key battleground states meant to counter President Donald Trump 's efforts to portray him as soft on China.
"When Trump rolled over for the Chinese, he took their word for it. Trump praised the Chinese 15 times in January and February as the coronavirus spread across the world," the narrator in the Biden ad says, as images of various Trump tweets flash on the screen.
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A Key G.O.P. Strategy: Blame China. But Trump Goes Off Message. - The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The strategy could not be clearer: From the Republican lawmakers blanketing Fox News to new ads from President Trump's super PAC to the biting criticism on Donald Trump Jr.'s Twitter feed , the G.O.P. is attempting to divert attention from the administration's heavily criticized response to the coronavirus by pinning the blame on China.
Republican senators locked in difficult races are preparing commercials condemning China. Conservatives with future presidential ambitions of their own, like Senators Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley, are competing to see who can talk tougher toward the country where the virus first emerged. Party officials are publicly and privately brandishing polling data in hopes Mr. Trump will confront Beijing.
Don't Mention the Virus! And Other Marketing Tips - The New York Times
As the coronavirus pandemic moved across the United States, the stock market plunged and many of the country's businesses closed, a major platform for social media influencers had a rosier message: "Good news in consumer shopping trends!"
"People are more anxious, they're on high alert, they're under a lot of stress and there's a lot of bad news they're consuming and experiencing," said Mae Karwowski, chief executive of Obviously, an influencer agency that has been adjusting the tone and messaging of campaigns. "We want to make sure brands aren't attached to those really negative things that are happening while still acknowledging that we're all communally going through this."
Black, blue and very bad taste: the Rolling Stones billboard that still sparks controversy |
Even by the standards of 1970s rock'n'roll, it was in bad taste: a billboard on Sunset Boulevard of a bruised and bound woman sitting on a gatefold cover of a new Rolling Stones album that proclaimed: "I'm 'Black and Blue' from the Rolling Stones – and I love it."
Five women connected with the group – "armed with buckets of fire-engine-red paint", according to the magazine Mother Jones – defaced the hoarding, writing "This is a crime against women." The band's label, Atlantic Records, pulled the campaign. The band apologised. By way of an explanation, Mick Jagger said he'd applied the simulated bruises himself.
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How Facebook's Ad Technology Helps Trump Win - The Atlantic
Facebook wired a machine into electoral decision making. Political campaigns have ceased to communicate with voters and have begun to communicate with AI instead. Facebook's artificial intelligence for delivering advertising is already a crucial component of a winning 2020 campaign—perhaps the crucial component. And it works in a tangled, outlandish way that no human, not even at Facebook, can ever fully understand.
P erhaps calling Facebook ads "advertising" in the first place is misleading. The pictures and text that appear on its website do indeed conform to the traditional meaning of that term. But the plumbing that selects and delivers those ads is wholly unlike what came before Facebook.
The Hill's Campaign Report: Trump inflames red state-blue state coronavirus divide | TheHill
We're Julia Manchester, Max Greenwood and Jonathan Easley. Here's what we're watching today on the campaign trail.
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Trump has never been one to pass on a chance to engage in the culture wars, and his tweets, which effectively encouraged his followers to rebel against government-enforced social distancing orders, appeared aimed at exploiting the growing rift between the left and the right over state government responses to the coronavirus outbreak.
Shell companies hide Trump campaign's financial dealings as super PAC coordination rules
President Donald Trump 's official super PAC, America First Action , recently unveiled its first independent expenditures in the 2020 presidential election attacking presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden on his response to the coronavirus pandemic.
But critical information about financial dealings of Trump's re-election campaign remains hidden by shell companies, obscuring details critical to determine if Trump's campaign is coordinating with his official super PAC.
Vacation mecca wants visitors to stay away — for now | WTOP
It's not the ad campaign Ocean City's official cheerleaders thought they would be running right now.
But a global pandemic has forced people to avoid gathering in groups. And what is OC — with its throngs of sweaty beachgoers, fistfuls of french fries and all-night Coastal Highway revelers — if not the ultimate group experience?
So, just six weeks out from the Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial kickoff of summer, the resort is adapting. In a nod to circumstance, Ocean City leaders have launched a media campaign unlike any they've ever run.
Happening on Twitter
The Biden campaign has launched a new attack on Trump's coronavirus response. "This president left America exposed… https://t.co/cJbXp0LodF kylegriffin1 (from Manhattan, NY) Sat Apr 18 16:00:01 +0000 2020
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