Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) needs your help to keep the US Senate in Republican hands. So ruined a handful of Facebook ads that Cruise’s campaign committee bought this month. But none of them were really raising money for Republican candidates in Georgia. Instead, every penny donated went straight … to the cruise.
The cruise campaign bought 15 different ads on Facebook in the past two weeks, featuring a video of each senator dramatically highlighting the need to hold two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia’s runoff contests.
“Gun grabbing, tax hikes, open borders and Supreme Court stacking. If he wins the Georgia Senate election, that is the fundamentalist Democratic agenda, “Cruz said.
He asked for a contribution of 5 for his new “Keep in Georgia Red Fund”. But Facebook users who clicked on the don online donation page – and read the micro print at the bottom – will see that the real beneficiary is not Sense but Cruz’s own campaign committee. In Georgia.
Cruz is one of the elected officials of both parties, using competitive and extremely expensive – Georgia runout competitions to raise money for himself. Increasingly, those officials are doing so on Facebook, where the ban on political advertising was lifted in late October this month, but only for ads in Georgia.
A series of Facebook ads have begun for Senate contests in the state on behalf of political candidates from outside the state. On some occasions, ads do not even mention run-.f contests, but target Georgian users in an attempt to exploit Facebook’s state-specific political advertising policy.
Facebook did not respond to questions about obvious loopholes. But the efforts made by Cruz and others illustrate the difficulties faced by the company in formulating a political advertising policy that is not very easy to ban or exploit.
The social media giant’s ban on advertising, designed to limit misinformation about the outcome of the presidential election, temporarily shuts down the fund-raising tool around and after the election. While the company eased the ban on ads in Georgia this month, The Facebook ad campaigned on the opportunity to return to the game. Last month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee encouraged its members to use the enthusiasm of surrounding donors as early as possible to help create their own fundraising programs.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has paved the way for his case. His campaign is sending some text messages and running Geopia-centric Google ads by linking to a page on the GOP’s fundraising platform WinRed, which says the donation will benefit McConnell’s own campaign committee.
According to a source familiar with the arrangement, McConnell’s Georgia-centric fundraising efforts have really paid off in Georgia, using their large email and text messaging lists to solicit donations split between two senators and a Republican Senate candidate. A McConnell spokesman said his post-election fundraising efforts, with his direct Georgia-centric funding ising Bhu, have brought in more than 3. 4.3 million in subsidies for loafers and periods.
According to guidelines published by WinRed, this split funding fund is a key mechanism in promoting efforts to fund bottom-up funding for Senate candidates in Georgia. Some members of Congress have taken advantage of that strategy. For example, Kathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA) and Ashley Hinson (R-IA), both bought Facebook ads this month that link to donation pages that split The process takes place evenly between their own campaign committees and Perdue and Lofler.
Many, however, continue to donate for their own campaigns or political vehicles. And he doesn’t just get the job of a Republican. For example Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), in Georgia, runs a pair of Facebook ads this month with urgent requests to provide financial support to Democratic Senate candidates.
“If you want to take back the Senate and retire Mitch McConnell, the only thing you can do right now is donate to elect Rafael Warnock and John Osoff in Georgia,” the announcement said. The ads link to a donation page that specifies that the funds will not go to Sof or Vernonck, but to Gillibrand’s Political Action Committee, Off the Sidlines PAC.
Gillibrand’s PAC largely exists to fund other Democratic candidates, so it’s not conceivable that some of the money raised by those ads will support Democrats in Georgia. Indeed, the PAC donated to both Osof and Vandrock before the general election. But by law, it can only pay everyone પહેલા 4,000 before the run-off contest in January, less than what the PAC has to offer, with an appeal for a PAC state Senate contest.
Then there are those who are trying to raise money for all of Georgia’s political activities without caring about the distribution of money.
Congressman-elect Madison Cow Thorne (R-NC) bought a handful of Facebook ads last week promising to use his new post in a futile and conspiratorial attempt to thwart the 2020 presidential election. “Donate below to join the fight and help save our American lifestyle!” Read it An additional five CWThorne ads called on people to “defend freedom and defend Georgia!” But like everyone else, he also linked to Thorn’s own donation page. Kwa Thorne will not swear until this weekend.
President Donald Trump is preparing to raise money for his own political endeavors using the Georgia Senate contest. His political team is buying Google ads and sending fundraising emails for the week, which the GOP Senate has urgently needed to have a majority and will seek to contribute to its own political groups. But, the nice print of these requests makes it clear that a big part of the change will be a small part in Trump’s own committee and the Republican National Committee.
The tactic has spread more widely since Facebook launched its political ads on Georgia-related appeals. Like Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) has run a number of ads this month seeking donations on behalf of his Republican allies, Loffler and Perdue.
“Democrats, with their radical agenda, are trying to destroy our country. The center of that fight is now in Georgia. We must have a Senate, ”announced 10 Facebook ads powered by the Lee campaign this month. “Join the fight by chipping away at what you can do.”
Ten Lee Campaign ads run this month linked to the senator’s Winred page. His office fee insists that Money participate in upcoming competitions.
“Sen. Lena’s multiple Facebook campaigns have raised thousands of dollars for Georgia’s runoff candidates, “a Lena spokeswoman said in an email. “Some of these campaigns have given donors the opportunity to donate to Sen. Lee, but in that way less than $ 100 has been raised.”
But the language on Winred’s page, encouraged in Lee’s recent Facebook ads, is very clear: “Your contribution will benefit Mike Lee’s friends.”
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