Despite what a circulating Facebook meme is saying, Hillary Clinton has issued a political advertisement touting her own accomplishments. The “Donald Trump for President” Facebook page posted a photograph of Hillary Clinton along with the claim that the Democratic presidential nominee had spent over $1 billion on negative attack ads targeting Trump.
The meme further claims that Clinton spent no money at all on political ads touting her own political record and accomplishments. However, that claim is false as the nominee’s campaign has produced positive advertising.
Contrary to the absurd claim, Clinton’s campaign has not spent “over $1 billion on negative Trump ads on TV.” Although Clinton has run a number of negative TV spots attacking her rival, she has not spent anywhere near $1 billion on such ads, according to Snopes.
NBC partner Advertising Analytics released a report detailing how much money each of the candidates had spent on ads. In that report, they recorded that Clinton’s campaign spent about $90 million on ads during the general election (up to 20 September 2016), while pro-Clinton groups had spent an additional $60 million or so:
Hillary Clinton and her allies continue to dominate Donald Trump and pro-Trump outside groups in the 2016 advertising race. According to ad-spending data from NBC partner Advertising Analytics, Clinton’s campaign has spent $96.4 million in ads in the general election, versus $17.3 million for Trump’s campaign. That’s more than a 5-to-1 advantage for Clinton. And then when you factor in outside groups, it’s $156.6 million for Team Clinton, and $33.6 million for Team Trump. That’s almost a 5-to-1 advantage.
Speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco on Thursday, Clinton reflected on the starkly negative turn of the campaign’s final month.
“It makes you want to turn off the news. It makes you want to unplug the Internet or just look at cat GIFs,” she said. “Believe me, I get it. In the last few weeks I’ve watched a lot of cats do a lot of weird and interesting things.”
But Clinton urged supporters not to succumb to the temptation to tune out the campaign and stay away from the polls on election day.
“We have a job to do, and it’ll be good for people and for cats,” she said. “We need to demonstrate that we have a hopeful, positive, unifying vision for our country in the face of all this ugly [rhetoric].”
Here are some reactions on social media that believe Clinton has run a negative campaign. Disagree?
Just saw @HillaryClinton ad & true to campaign just goes negative. Can someone please tell me what she is FOR? Other than lies corruption $
— Shamrox-Catholic (@shillelagh1) October 15, 2016
Sorry. Too late. @HillaryClinton and her negative campaign moved my vote away from her. https://t.co/JRe7B05GQJ— Mulator (@Mulator) October 14, 2016
Recent assessment ads shows Hillary Clinton’s campaign to be the most negative EVER–over 90% do nothing but bash Trump!
VERY undignified!
— Alfred E. Neuman (@drsammyj) October 14, 2016
Voters have been able to see a number of videos explaining Clinton’s accomplishments from her 30-plus years of public service, including one that highlighted her work with children and health care and another featuring President Obama talking about Clinton’s many achievements.
Do you think Clinton has run a mostly negative campaign against Donald Trump? Sound off below in the comments section.
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