Mark Penn: ‘Come on, Facebook Ads Here Were Not the Reason’ Hillary Lost

EXCERPT:

PENN: "Well, I was really intrigued by all the stories I saw about this. I said, 'Look, we have got to be careful about fake news about fake news.’ The truth is, when you take a look about what we know about these ads, there is $100,000. 56 percent were after the election. Maybe somebody should have told them when the election was, that gives you 44,000 of ads. Most of them were not to the swing states; maybe half were. That’s 22,000. Most of them didn’t mention candidates, $13,000. We spent $2.4 billion of authenticated money on the presidential campaign and Hillary’s PAC put $6 million into these swing states in just the last week. So, come on, Facebook ads here were not the reason. If we believe fake news about fake news, we may want to overregulate the Internet. That is dangerous."