The former vice president will go up in 15 battleground states, expanding the playing field.
WASHINGTON — Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s presidential campaign will buy $280 million in advertising time in the fall, almost twice as much as the $151 million President Donald Trump has slated so far for the final three months before Election Day. The Democrat’s campaign says the advance reservations of ad time will allow it to expand the battlefield to 15 states from the six it’s competed in so far. The spending comes as the Trump campaign is rebooting its own ad strategy, redoubling its negative attacks on Biden, who is leading by more than 7 percentage points in national polls, according to the RealClearPolitics average. He’s also ahead in the six states most crucial to Trump’s 2016 victory: Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan. Biden has already spent millions in ads in those states. The campaign says it will expand that list to include four other states Trump won in 2016: Georgia, Iowa, Ohio and Texas. The Biden ad strategy will also defend five states Hillary Clinton won four years ago: Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, Colorado and Virginia.
