Trump Campaign to Break TV Hiatus With First New Ads in Weeks
- Trump and Biden both held off on ads during initial lockdowns
- Last Trump campaign ad, touting the economy, ran on March 10
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Presidential candidates saturated the airways more than 9,000 hours of political ads this winter. But since most of the country went into a virus-fueled lockdown, neither President Donald Trump nor Joe Biden have broadcast a single 30-second television spot.
Now, Trump’s re-election campaign is set to release a flood of advertisements touting his response to the coronavirus pandemic after both camps wrestled with how to make their case to nervous voters without seeming tone deaf amid the crisis and its economic fallout.