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Democrats Are Blanketing Small Newspapers With Ads in the Election’s Last Sprint

The DNC is placing ads in small-to-midsize papers in core states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Home delivered newspapers are seen on a wet driveway.
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Democrats are turning to a few dozen small newspapers to get their message out in the election’s final days.

Twenty-five newspapers in the seven top battleground states — North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia — will feature full-page ads from the Democratic National Committee on Wednesday, the committee told NOTUS. Each page will include a message that criticizes Donald Trump as “unhinged,” “unstable” and “unchecked.”

The DNC chose to place the ads in many of the states’ small-to-midsize newspapers in suburban and exurban areas, including the Erie Times-News in Pennsylvania, the La Crosse Tribune in Wisconsin and the Macon Telegraph in Georgia.