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opportunities to win, but drive our message across this country, because many people are going to be left behind by the policies of donald trump. you have the democratic super pac launching a series of web ads now, they have a message for president trump s voter base. let s take a listen to a clip from their most recent ad. here it is. we have to do health care first to pick up additional money so we get great tax reform. great for who? this is not what we were promised. i am your voice! who does he really care about? tell congress don t let trump sell us out. joel, do you think it s more important that the democrats figure out their own message and put that out there instead of having an anti-trump message? well, look, you ve got republicans in control of the white house and congress right now, and that means they are driving the agenda every day. i think with democrats, have to do is be very strong voiced opposition to issues that we have been on the right side of
about it. he protects himself, he doesn t like to be made fun of. one thing donald trump has spent a lot of time with his brand, the trump brand. people know his hotels and it seems like he put a lot of thought into it, but in terms of politics, it doesn t seem like he puts a lot of thought it s almost like he s an addict, he s looking for the next fix, the next adrenaline rush. that s why you get 3:00 a.m. tweets, why he s making news all the time. that s why he s good on the stump, too. he s working with the crowd and getting direction from the crowd and he throws like he said, you d be in jail, was that considered? was that what he meant? he said, i m going to say she belongs in jail. now they re putting out web ads and sending out e-mails that say. it wasn t just a heat of the moment quip, he s doubling down on it. here s meggy hastert, republican kelly ayotte, she launched a tv ad hitting ayotte
bernie sanders, husband, father, grandfather, an honest leader building a movement with you to give as future to believe in. that is a $2 million ad that is going to run in iowa and new hampshire. comes ahead of friday s democratic forum between three presidential candidates. andy kroll joins us, staff at the national journal. thanks for being here. sometimes we show these ads and people go there s a lot of ads and a lot of web ads to get people talking. this is a significant buy from someone who hasn t spent a lot yet. that s right. this ad is really a kick-off for a new phase of senator sanders presidential campaign. the first television advertisement of the entire campaign. it is also as we saw a biographical ad and part of a shift by the sanders campaign, possibly away from the big
but what is interesting is that we saw an attack ad from the democratic party last week trying to lump donald trump s controversial comments on immigration to the entire field. and so it s a different type of strategy between each of the two sides. former governor jeb bush s super pac raising more than $100 million in the first quarter of the campaign season. so i would expect that a lot of web ads, a lot of new media ads in addition to a lot of television ads, too. kevin, you mentioned how the democrats had this attack ad against donald trump. there are a lot of moving targets on the republican side for the democrats to go after. so how did they plan their attack? trump is it for now. but then what? well then what is i think what they re trying to have to decide and when you look at the political play book, when you look at the top tier candidates if you will you got people of course like former governor bush to some extent senator marco rubio.