Don’t look now, but the 2020 U.S. presidential election is just 11 months away.
For one Democratic hopeful seeking the nomination as the party’s candidate to defeat President Trump, there’s no time like now to blanket broadcast TV with ads touting his record and abilities — even though he’s not appeared in one debate yet.
The individual is Michael Bloomberg, the former Mayor of New York and owner/founder of Bloomberg News.
He’s revving up the spending at Spot TV, and according to the latest report from Media Monitors, Mike Bloomberg for President is now the fifth-largest spot campaign active at broadcast TV.
For the week ending Dec. 8, some 23,963 spots aired on the stations tracked by Media Monitors.
That puts the campaign far above any other political candidates’, as far as over-the-air spots are concerned.
The Bloomberg campaign was No. 19 for the week ending Dec. 1.
