A coalition of outside groups paid for more than 4,300 anti-Donald Trump ads during the week before Tuesday’s primary election in Florida — all to no avail as the real estate mogul sailed to an easy victory.
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It’s not wise to generalize about Trump because “he’s such a media phenomenon — who else has gotten so much free time?” asks campaign finance expert Rick Hasen, law and political science professor at the University of California at Irvine.
“One of the reasons super PACs have not been so influential at the presidential level is there’s so much other money and media interest,” he said, in an interview prior to the Tuesday night’s results. Once you move farther down the ballot, super PACs become far more influential, he added.