Democrats Not Spending in Florida, Surrender State to RepublicansOlivia Rondeau 12 Sep 2024
Democrat campaigners have all but abandoned Florida, spending very little money on advertising Vice President Kamala Harris in the nation’s largest swing state, where polls show a significant advantage for former President Donald Trump.
In September 2020 alone, President Joe Biden’s campaign spent $38 million on television ads in the state and Trump spent $19 million, NBC News reported, citing data from AdImpact.
During the midterm elections of 2022, national Democrat organizations spent $2 million in Florida — a massive drop from the nearly $60 million they spent in the state in the previous midterm cycle.
In the current cycle, Democrats have spent just $2.1 million total on presidential TV ad campaigns, the outlet noted.
“The decrease in spending mirrors the election ratings provided by Cook Political Report, indicating that the statewide races were no longer as competitive as they had been in the past,” AdImpact’s analysis, published Wednesday, states.
NBC’s Matt Dixon referred to this phenomenon “as the first time in recent political memory” that Democrats have “left Florida as a comparative afterthought.”
With the obvious lack of financial support from Democrats at a national level, some state party operatives have voiced concerns about not having “real investment.”
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