Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump all have strong ties to New York, and they all approached their campaigns in the state very differently.
A report from the Center for Public Integrity shows that, in dollars spent on radio and TV ads, Bernie Sanders spent about $9.03 per vote in New York. Hillary Clinton spent $3.62, and Trump only spent $0.13 per vote.
However, those numbers don't take into account earned media.
Other Republican candidates have regularly outspent Trump on ads, but in February alone, "Trump earned $400 million worth of free media."
According to the New York Times, Over the course of the campaign, he has earned close to $2 billion worth of media attention, about twice the all-in price of the most expensive presidential campaigns in history. It is also twice the estimated $746 million that Hillary Clinton, the next best at earning media, took in.
With help like that, it's hard to see why he ought to spend competitively on ads.
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Guess which candidate is spending his own money? TM
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