Candidates for federal office can claim the Equal Time law to demand that they can purchase an equal amount of time as an opponent's ad, at an equal price, in an equal time slot. (In other words, candidates can demand to have an ad run at approximately the same time of day, which was about 8:15 PM ET, and have it run inside another playoff game to reach the same audience.)
The candidates must demand this time within seven days of the original ad, and must demand it from the broadcaster or cablecaster who ran the ad. So campaigns have through this Sunday to demand EQUAL TIME from TBS and set the record straight.
I have reached out to some campaigns about this, but have received no reply. Let me say this to ALL Democratic candidates: if you do not counter Trumps' media manipulations directly, they will not be countered. Period. It is up to you.





