Republican Candidate Linda McMahon of WWE Advertises On “Saturday Night Live,” Notre Dame Football Game
McMahon is expected to spend as much as $30 million in an attempt to unseat Democratic incumbent Chris Dodd, and she seems to be on the way.
McMahon has started a television blitz across Connecticut, but it is not limited to news shows – and she is clearly aiming for voters of all ages and interests.
She reached a large audience on Saturday night with a commercial at about 9 p.m. during the Notre Dame football game. She then ran another commercial less than three hours later on the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live,” which does not come cheap. The SNL audience was certainly large with an appearance by the Irish rock superstars, U2.
These commercials come on top of a full-page ad in the weekly Metropolitan section of the Sunday New York Times and full-page ads in The Hartford Courant and other newspapers. That was on top of a brochure that landed in the mailboxes of many citizens last Thursday – the day after she announced her candidacy.
McMahon, a longtime Greenwich resident, is running for the Republican nomination against former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons of Stonington, state Sen. Sam Caligiuri of Waterbury, former U.S. ambassador to Ireland Tom Foley of Greenwich, and Peter Schiff, a former Darien resident who now operates an investment company out of Westport.
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