Pro-Clinton super PAC to start airing general election ads on Wednesday

[onehandle]

Source: CNN

Priorities USA, the big money pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC, will begin airing general election ads against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday, according to a spokesman.

Priorities USA will spend $6 million on ads between May 18 and June 8, hitting Trump in Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Nevada, all general election battleground states. The ads will try to do what no Republican could: Take down the businessman who beat a scrum of veteran politicians to all-but-win the Republican nomination.

"Donald Trump is a divisive, dangerous, con man who should never be President of the United States," said Justin Barasky, spokesman for the super PAC, who added that the super PAC is airing ads to show, in part, that it is preparing "for a close and competitive election."

Priorities, an outfit tasked with raising millions of dollars and spending it on television ads, has previously announced that they would spend $130 million in ads that will begin airing ads on June 8, the day after primaries in California and New Jersey.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/16/politics/priorities-usa-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-super-pac

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The Democratic Primary is over!

The General Election has begun!

We need a General Election Forum, DU!

[newthinking]

1. Hurrah for big money

pushing out democracy!

Thanks god we don't have to wait for those California suckers to vote!

[onehandle]

2. So you like Donald Trump?

Good to know.

[newthinking]

3. nice try.

I was just following up on your excitement about the superpack and the shortcut to the general.

[bunchofpenguins]

4. Trump, Clinton.

Who cares. Two unpopular partisan career pols running for an elected office that affects everyone.

Pretty much we're all screwed.

[George II]

10. "Career politicians"? I assume you're a Sanders supporter....

....other than being a politician, what has he done in his "career"?

[roguevalley]

14. well, he hasn't been indicted. his career is stellar. he never traded on his name to get it.

[George II]

15. So who in this discussion HAS been indicted? Huh?

[azurnoir]

22. so who is under FBI investigation? Huh?

[George II]

27. Not the discussion - the person above me insinuated that someone has been indicted, then....

....when confronted with a question about who ran for the hills.

If you're stepping in as that person's surrogate, who has been indicted? And to answer your question, probably hundreds or even thousands of people are being "investigated" by the FBI at this time.

You guys keep bringing this up - one of those people is NOT Hillary Clinton. You should do some research to find out the nature of the current FBI investigation that you're alluding to.

Finally, what is the point of all these attacks on Clinton? Do you think posting these vague (and for some here not so vague) attacks are going to turn the nomination around, reverse the delegate count after more than 20 million people have voted? I truly do not understand why this is happening here all of a sudden, not that the nomination has been all but decided. Do you folks expect that something is to be accomplished with all of this?

[AlbertCat]

9. So you like Donald Trump?

Who cares?

He and Hillary have made this election a joke.

[Beaverhausen]

5. Ads against trump help everyone

[RBInMaine]

25. It is the Bernie Fans' delusional conspiracy theories pushing out democracy.

Screaming and yelling that everything is "rigged" and "corrupt" even though Bernie has 3 million fewer popular votes and 300 fewer PLEDGED delegates, they still somehow think he is "winning" and that the only reason he isn't winning in the minds of some is because of "fraud" and "corruption" and all the rest of that delusional malarkey. So then the Bernie Fans go and disrupt the DEMOCRACY and FAIRNESS of the procedures at state conventions, wrapped in their circular delusions of "corruption" and "fraud" and a "rigged system" and round and round the mulberry bush they go.

[Brother Buzz]

6. Crap, Christmas decorations displayed before Thanksgiving

This Californian is a little pissed that they are running GE ads before I even get to vote in the damn primary.

[newthinking]

8. Sit in the back of the bus and don't be a spoiler!

[xocet]

7. So, you believe that a super PAC should be allowed to dictate when the GE starts?

Sec. Clinton is not the nominee yet. The process needs to continue unless you want to exclude other Democrats from having a say in the matter.

DU does not need a General Election Forum right now.

[hack89]

29. Barring the indictment fairy intervening

Hillary will be the nominee. Bernie cannot catch her in the pledged delegate count. So it is perfectly reasonable to start GE ads now.

[xocet]

30. So, the pledged delegate counts are Sen. Sanders (1437) and Sec. Clinton (1717) for a difference...

of 280 pledged delegates. The superdelegates do not count until they vote at the convention. There are more than 800 pledged delegates (approximately 900) left to be assigned, so there are more than enough pledged delegates remaining available for Sen. Sanders to pass Sec. Clinton in the pledged delegate count. If that happens, it will be interesting to see if the Democratic Party maintains democratic behavior. Then and only then will the superdelegates matter excepting the propaganda purposes that they currently seem to serve.

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/delegate-targets/

Your perception of the mathematics is quite incorrect. Unless you want to put forth the incorrect proposition that "800 < 280", your position is merely indefensible, but not yet wildly wrong.

So, no, it is not "perfectly reasonable to start GE ads now."

[hack89]

31. No. Bernie cannot win by the necessary margins to pull it out.

he needs massive blow out victories for every remaining state to be able to win. That is not going to happen.

[xocet]

32. "Cannot" is fairly definite. What you are saying is that you do not believe that he will do so.

That is quite a different statement than it is not mathematically possible for Sen. Sanders to pass Sec. Clinton in pledged delegates.

While I respect your right to believe what you wish to believe, your more general statement remains quite incorrect. Simply put, no one yet knows the outcome.

I am not counting on a Sanders defeat of Sec. Clinton, but the possibility does remain and until it is actually decided, ads for the GE should not be started.

[hack89]

33. Lets put it this way

he will have to do what has never been done before. And there is no indication that any of the factors that have resulted in him losing to this point have changed. In fact, things are getting worse as his funding has dried up and he is shedding campaign staff left and right.

[xocet]

34. You are correct in saying that it is seemingly not likely that Sen. Sanders will succeed in his bid.

I totally agree with you on that statement, but I believe that it is important to let the process be complete before advancing to the GE advertising. Aside from this last point, we are probably pretty much on the same page so to speak.

[George II]

11. Great - we don't need to allow Trump to have free rein (not reign) until June 7, or...

...the July convention.

Time to get started on retaining our DEMOCRATIC Presidency.

[chwaliszewski]

17. Sounds like you're scared of Trump beating your beloved Hillary...

I thought she had this in the bag?

[George II]

19. RIF....

I'd elaborate, but I have a pair of SOCKS to wash.

[chwaliszewski]

21. OMG! Thanks for passing on the opportunity to burn me so bad...

Have fun washing those socks.

[stonecutter357]

12. K&R!

[rpannier]

13. I'm starting to think she should run a Presidential campaign similar to Warren Harding's 1920

He did almost no campaigning
The way Admiral Il Douche is ranting and carrying on he'll sink his own ship

[raindaddy]

16. Hillary is the least trusted,least liked Dem candidate for president in history.

She's a liability and for the good of the party and the country she should step down....

[chwaliszewski]

18. +27

[Democat]

24. Pro-Trump trolls posting on DU

Where are the admins?

[SCantiGOP]

28. It really is getting very hard

to determine which DU posters are actually paid or just enthusiastic Trump supporters. All they spend their time doing is pissing on the
Dems chances in November.

[Geronimoe]

20. Remake of Lord of the Flies

[Hairy Harry Potlover]

23. Never Too Early

Kerry lost in '04 because he let Rove "define" him in the spring and summer.