With major platforms banning political ads, they’re increasingly making that war chest less valuable.
Wait, was the media and tech sprawling with fawning reviews, declaring the Obama campaign a genius use of tech?
Phone banking, knocking on doors, and (as someone else said) traditional media are all easy ways to spend money.
Trump needed cost-effective social media before, but now he won't be as reliant on it.
Which is good. No more of Cambridge Analytica and following -
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-facebooks-embed-in-the-trum...
From the president who would call it fiasco because he claims it's a partisan attack, to the house democrats who'd call it a fiasco because the senate has members saying they'll be working with the prosecution to throw it out as quickly as possible, and everyone in between.
This feels like a useless attempt to distract with semantics that isn't even correct if you really want to nitpick...
They're going to disproportionately affect underdog and non-incumbent candidates, as well as anyone who needs the voters purged in places like Georgia.