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applegrove

(118,665 posts)
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 04:15 PM Mar 2020

Trump Campaign Will Send a Billion Text Messages

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 history’—and texts are far more likely to be opened than e-mails, social-media posts, or news articles. ‘We’ve 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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Trump Campaign Will Send a Billion Text Messages (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2020 OP
And Putin has all that info too. Farmer-Rick Mar 2020 #1
Does anyone know if there is a way to flag a text message as spam? applegrove Mar 2020 #2
Great - 3 billion misspellings lame54 Mar 2020 #3
LOL CatWoman Mar 2020 #5
Sneaky snakes, Baked Potato Mar 2020 #4
Hmmm... I Wonder... jayfish Mar 2020 #6
And I will gleefully block the numbers they come from. MineralMan Mar 2020 #7

applegrove

(118,665 posts)
2. Does anyone know if there is a way to flag a text message as spam?
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 04:18 PM
Mar 2020

I know i can block number on my samsung.

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
4. Sneaky snakes,
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 04:33 PM
Mar 2020

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 what’s coming our way via Brad Parscale.

According to the article, the RNC has raised over $263 million for 2020.

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