TRUMP CAMPAIGN
Billionaire’s radio ads begin airing today
Donald Trump’s campaign for president will begin airing radio ads on Thursday in the three earliest-voting states, marking the first time the billionaire businessman has spent money on paid advertising since he launched his bid. Trump’s team announced Wednesday that its first two radio ads will run through the end of November in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. It says the ad buy is valued at $300,000. The spending comes as Trump continues to adjust to the new realities of an evolving campaign in which he is no longer the undisputed front-runner of the Republican field. While he remains on top in many opinion surveys, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has surged past him in others. And candidates like Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz of Texas are drawing new attention from voters and donors as the opening contests near. On Wednesday, Trump told reporters in New Hampshire, where he officially filed to appear on the state’s primary ballot, that the ads would be “very, very positive, about good things and great things about the country.” But he added a warning to rivals who may be considering negative ads against him. “If they hit me, they will get smacked like they never got smacked before,” he said. — Jill Colvin, Associated Press
Pressure continued to mount on NBC to cancel Donald Trump’s guest-host appearance on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” as a coalition of advocacy groups delivered petitions to the network Wednesday calling for him to be dropped from the show.
The petitions delivered to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, home of NBC and “Saturday Night Live,” marked the latest attempts to dissuade the network from allowing the Republican presidential hopeful to host the show, with the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda earlier asking that NBC reconsider the decision.
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