If you want to know what a campaign really thinks about its chances, you don’t listen to what it says, you watch where it puts its money.
This week’s Data Download is looking at how the President Donald Trump and Joe Biden teams (and their main affiliated outside groups) have changed their broadcast ad spending over the summer. The numbers offer a peek into which states the campaigns actually believe to be competitive and they appear to hold some good news for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. CONT.
Dante Chinni & Ben Kamisar, NBC News
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