Pro-Hillary super PAC to buy $10.5 million in TV time in PA
After leaving Pennsylvania out of its first ad-time purchases in swing states, the pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Priorities USA says it will reserve $10.5 million worth of time in the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton TV markets.
The super PAC backing Hillary Clinton reserved $10.5 million in TV advertising time beginning next week in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state that Republican Donald J. Trump believes he can win by appealing to white working-class voters.
Priorities USA will air ads in the three largest markets - Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton - starting on July 5 and running through Election Day, spokesman Justin Barasky said in announcing the purchase.
Earlier, the super PAC had announced it was playing in several other competitive states, so the new buy may suggest the race for the White House could be closer in Pennsylvania than expected. Although Democrats have won the state in every presidential election since 1992, many in the party have been pushing team Clinton to commit more money to a state whose demographics and economic woes in the west suggest Trump could have appeal.
"This morning Donald Trump cheered a potential economic collapse because it would be good for his bottom line and compared running a country to running a golf course," Barasky said Friday, referring to Trump's assertion that a Brexit-related crash in value of the British pound could be good for his Scottish golf course.
"We are determined to do everything we possibly can to ensure we never allow such a dangerous and divisive know-nothing to become president," Barasky said.
The Pennsylvania purchases bring Priorities USA's television reservations to $117.5 million in nine states. The others are: Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Colorado, Nevada, New Hampshire, Iowa and North Carolina.