By the time it’s over, this year’s race for president will have cost at least $3.5 billion. The single biggest expense will be campaign ads. Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The Times, discusses the story that each campaign has been using those ads to tell, 30 seconds at a time.
Sep 2024
The Mad Dash to Election Day
First: New TV ads, bus tours, and economic rollouts ... the Harris team is trying to flood the campaign zone one week before the candidates meet face-to-face for the first time on the debate stage.
Plus: From a very pro-choice to the most pro-life president, Donald Trump is cert ... Show More
45m 47s
Sep 2024
Summer Is Over. Election Season Is Here.
Labor Day is behind us and the conventional final stretch of the 2024 presidential campaign is here. There will be a rush of advertising, debates, more urgent attention paid to jobs reports, and October surprises. In this installment of the 538 Politics podcast, we look at where ... Show More
32m 8s