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Sam Elliott Narrates Viral World Series Ad For Biden

Deadline Hollywood reports: Sam Elliott lends his voice to the Joe Biden campaign, narrating a new advertisement for the former vice president’s 2020 presidential run. A new Biden ad, titled Go From There, premiered on Tuesday during the first game of the Major League Baseball World Series. Over a simple piano rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner” the A Star …

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Trump Spends $10M+ In Last Ditch Pitch To Seniors

Axios reports: The Trump campaign is launching a new “eight-figure” advertising campaign this week that focuses, in part, on recovering President Trump’s standing among senior citizens, according to top officials. Why it matters: Senior citizens are the most reliable voting bloc and they formed the core of Trump’s political base in 2016. But that’s no longer the case. One of …

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Biden Camp To Resume Airing Anti-Trump Attack Ads

Bloomberg News reports: Biden’s campaign is preparing to restart negative advertising now that Trump is recovering from his bout with the coronavirus, a person familiar with the campaign’s plans said Wednesday. On Friday, the day Trump was hospitalized, the Biden campaign asked TV stations to stop airing negative ads out of respect for the president’s health issues. Biden said on …

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Biden To Pull Attack Ads, Only Positive Ads Will Run

Multiple sources on Twitter are saying that the Biden campaign has made the decision to pull ads that attack Trump. Only positive ads will run. The decision was reportedly made before it was announced that Trump will spend at least the next few days at Walter Reed Medical Center. It’s not yet clear whether Trump’s recovery would mean a return …

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Lincoln Project Ad: You Can Stop Lindsey’s Suffering

The Hill reports: The Lincoln Project, a conservative super PAC opposed to President Trump and several incumbent GOP lawmakers, released a new ad Friday mocking Sen. Lindsey Graham after the South Carolina Republican said he was “getting killed financially” by his Democratic challenger, Jaime Harrison. “Every single hour in South Carolina, Lindsey Graham is violently out-fundraised,” the ad states, playing …

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Google Unveils Ban On Post-Election Day Political Ads

Axios reports: Google informed its advertisers Friday that it will broadly block election ads after polls close Nov. 3, according to an email obtained by Axios. Why it matters: Big Tech platforms have been under pressure to address how their ad policies will handle conflicts over the presidential election’s outcome. Facebook recently said that it will no longer accept new …

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9/11 Group Angry Trump Ran Campaign Ads Yesterday

The Hill reports: 9/11 Day, the nonprofit that established the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks as a federally recognized National Day of Service and Remembrance, criticized President Trump on Friday for not suspending his campaign for the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “Sadly, our organization and members of the 9/11 community learned today that President Donald Trump’s …

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Joe Biden To Pull TV Ads In Commemoration Of 9/11

ABC News reports: Joe Biden’s campaign is pulling its television ads off the air for the day on Friday, Sept. 11, to commemorate the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. “On September 11th, Vice President Biden will commemorate the anniversary of the attack on our country and will honor the incredible bravery, tragedy, and loss we experienced on that day,” …

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Apple Warns Of “Over Sharing” In Ad Touting Privacy

The Verge reports: Some of them are embarrassing, some are potential privacy violations, but they’re among the examples in Apple’s new Over Sharing ad, which re-emphasizes the company’s focus — or at least its image — of being a protector of online privacy. The ad’s tagline, shown at the end, reads “Some things shouldn’t be shared. iPhone helps keep it …

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Facebook To Bar Political Ads One Week Before Election

The Washington Post reports: Facebook plans to block new advertising the week before the presidential election — the first time the company has taken action to limit political advertising in the United States, the company said Thursday. The move to limit ads, part of a spate of election-related announcements, is an attempt to reduce misinformation that is expected to flood …

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Trump Campaign Buys YouTube Masthead For Week

Axios reports: The Trump campaign is going all in on digital advertising for the Republican National Convention, with plans to take over the YouTube masthead and flood Facebook, Google and streaming services like Hulu with pro-Trump messaging. The big picture: The massive digital ad buy — which is in the high seven figures, according to the campaign — will complement …

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Actor And Pitchman Wilford Brimley Dies At Age 85

Variety reports: Wilford Brimley, best known for his roles in “The Natural,” the 1982 remake of “The Thing,” “The Firm” and “Cocoon,” died on Saturday. He was 85. His agent, Lynda Bensky, told The New York Times that he had been sick with a kidney problem for two months. Brimley was also famous for the series of commercials for Quaker …

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Lincoln Project: Behold The “Impotus Americanus”

Mediaite reports: The anti-Trump PAC The Lincoln Project has been open about their goal to not just communicate with voters, but to pester Trump and distract him from attacking rival Joe Biden. Their latest ad certainly seems designed to accomplish that latter objective, mocking Trump’s weight, “ruddy orange, not found in nature” skin tone, and age, dubbing him “Impotus Americanus,” …

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Lincoln Project: Trump’s Days In Office Are Numbered

Just in from the Lincoln Project: A new video released today by The Lincoln Project, “We Will Vote,” sends a message loud and clear. Americans will be voting this November and Donald Trump can not stop them. After a tweet suggesting the possibility of delaying the election, Americans are vehemently defending their right, and ability, to vote in November. “We …

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Anti-Trump Ad Quotes Reagan: “Are You Better Off?”

This will surely enrage the Glorious Leader: A Democratic super PAC is launching an anti-President Trump ad that uses former President Reagan’s comments in a 1980 presidential debate when he was challenging then-President Carter. The ad is set to air exclusively on Fox News over the course of the next week starting Thursday as part of a six-figure national ad …

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Twitter Mulls Subscription Model As Ad Revenue Drops

CNN Business reports: Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday. The move comes as Twitter suffers a sharp decline in its core advertising business. “You will likely see some tests this year” of various approaches, Dorsey told analysts on an investor call held to …

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TEXAS: Biden Airs New Ads As State Becomes In Play

The Texas Tribune reports: Joe Biden is launching his first general-election TV ads in Texas as a growing number of polls show a close presidential race here. As part of a four-state ad buy that Biden’s campaign is announcing Tuesday, the presumptive Democratic nominee is going up with a 60-second spot in Texas that addresses the increasingly dire coronavirus situation …

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Lincoln Project: We Will Punish Every Senate Cultist

Just in from the Lincoln Project: The Lincoln Project’s latest ad, “Names,” laments the Republican Senators who have flagrantly violated their oaths of office to protect President Donald Trump. Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, said, “These are senators who have abandoned their consciences, left the American people behind, and fail to stand up for the Constitution and common …

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How The Lincoln Project Is Earning Liberal Donations

The Boston Globe reports: George Conway, a prominent conservative critic of President Trump and the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, had a wild theory that he could single handedly get Donald Trump to “trash” Jesus Christ. His plan? Run an ad on cable news networks in Washington, D.C., that said, “‘Jesus says love thy neighbor, but Donald Trump …

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Lincoln Project: Trump Will Never Be On Mt. Rushmore

Out today by the Lincoln Project: The latest ad released by The Lincoln Project, “Rushmore,” contrasts the American leaders enshrined on South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore and our current President, ahead of Trump’s planned visit to the monument this Fourth of July weekend. As the nation reckons with a complicated legacy regarding historical monuments, Trump need not worry that any of …

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