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Presidential, House Ads Slow to Trickle

Photo: Joe Biden Campaign Senate Ads Still Airing;Nine Percent of Federal Ads on TV Mention Coronavirus     (MIDDLETOWN, CT) April 9, 2020 – Television advertising in the presidential race has slowed to a trickle in the past couple of weeks just prior to Bernie Sanders suspending his campaign and ending the 2020 Democratic nomination race—and ads have dropped off in House and Senate races as well. Figure 1 shows the number of airings in the presidential race by week, which peaked at almost 150,000 at the end of February 2020 (shown in the solid line). But in the past…