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Trump Campaign Will Send a Billion Text Messages
March 2, 2020 at 3:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/02/trump-campaign-will-send-a-billion-text-messages/
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New Yorker: Parscale relied on Facebook to help him accomplish several campaign objectives, including persuasion, fund-raising, and G.O.T.V., or get out the vote. Finding and motivating likely voters through traditional means, such as TV ads or door-to-door canvassing, is expensive and time-consuming compared with social media.
Said Parscale: We have almost two hundred and fifteen million hard-I.D. voter records in our database now.
Even if Trump were banned from every social network, his campaign would be able to reach supporters by text. According to Parscale, the campaign is on track to send almost a billion texts, the most in historyand texts are far more likely to be opened than e-mails, social-media posts, or news articles. Weve been working on this around the clock for three years, a senior official who works on the 2020 digital campaign told me.
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Farmer-Rick
(10,175 posts)applegrove
(118,677 posts)I know i can block number on my samsung.
lame54
(35,292 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)who knows if they have tapped into the Emergency Alert System and scavenged phone numbers.
The New Yorker article is a must read if Democrats want to envision whats coming our way via Brad Parscale.
According to the article, the RNC has raised over $263 million for 2020.
jayfish
(10,039 posts)how much my mobile provider would charge me for sending 1B, spamy, text messages?