He first debate The clash between Joe Biden and Donald Trump ahead of the November presidential election has allowed both campaigns to launch an intense advertising blitz on television, the internet and radio, but also to boost campaign fundraising.
Biden campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz announced that an hour before the start of the debate, the US president had received a record number of individual donations, higher than the amount he raised after a New York court found Trump guilty of irregular payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
“The 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. time was the Biden-Harris team’s best individual campaign time, beating the 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. time that was our previous record.“Munoz said on his X account.
Trump’s campaign also received a record amount of donations just before the start of the presidential debate, Fox News reported.
The donations received will be used to pay for the advertising bombardment with which the two campaigns accompanied the debate held in Atlanta and organized by the CNN television network. Analysts have already warned that the November elections will be the most expensive in the country’s history.
The debate was interrupted twice by commercials. The Semafor website revealed that CNN set a price of at least 1 million dollars for each advertising slot during the breaks.
The Biden campaign launched a wave of ads in the media, on the Internet and on billboards this Thursday to emphasize that Trump “is focused on benefiting only one person: himself“as well as the Republican’s stance against abortion, his role in the storming of the Capitol and his criminal conviction.
Although the Democratic candidate’s campaign did not want to reveal the exact amount spent on this series of ads, it did indicate that it was seven figures. Previously, he had already revealed that he would spend about $50 million promoting Biden’s program and attacking Trump.
Trump, for his part, unveiled a series of television and social media ads focused on the economy, foreign policy and Biden’s advanced age, the main weak points of the current US president.
One of them, titled “Who is laughing now” includes images of Biden stumbling on the steps of Air Force One or seemingly lost on a stage.
“Vote for Joe Biden today and Kamala Harris tomorrow”says the television advertisement, an allusion to the possibility that Biden’s age, 81 years old, will mean that his vice president will have to assume power.
The effort made by the two campaigns around the meeting of the two presidential candidates is the result of the fact that surveys indicate that almost 75% of registered voters planned to follow the debate that may be the first and last of these elections.
Source: Gestion
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