Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on targeted campaign ads not to swing voter sentiment, but to mollify Trump, who is angry about his poor poll numbers, the Daily Beast reported on Monday.
According to the report, the campaign spent $400,000 to run ads on cable news channels Trump watches. The ads are running in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia — all of which Trump lost in 2016 and has little shot of winning in 2020.
Hillary Clinton won Maryland in 2016 with 60 percent of the vote, and Virginia with 50 percentof the vote. The last time a Republican won Virginia at the presidential level was in 2004, while a Republican presidential candidate hasn’t won Maryland since 1988. Continue reading.