It's starting: First "Check and Balance" ad set to run in New Hampshire

I read recently that in 1996 at the very end, GOP party leaders gave Republican congressional candidates permission to acknowledge that Dole was going to lose and use checks and balances on Clinton as an argument for themselves.

The first "checks and balances" ad, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, is set to air in New Hampshire.

This ad doesn't explicitly concede that Trump will lose, but it could signal a shift to that strategy.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/20/politics/kelly-ayotte-maggie-hassan-ad/index.html