Jessica Piper

Yeah, here we go.

And joining us for the first time here on our Reporters' Roundtable, Jessica Piper, who's senior data reporter at Politico.

A big welcome to you, Jessica.

Thanks for joining us.

We're back here on the Bill Press Pod and today's reporters roundtable.

Delighted to welcome back Kirk Bado, editor of the National Journal Hotline.

Jessica Piper, senior data reporter at Politico and Sharish Date, senior White House correspondent at HuffPost.

Yes, the governor's race in Ohio coming on fire this week when Vivek Ramaswamy released an ad aimed at...

Now, I'm going to be honest here.

I don't know if Tim Overton wrote the post or if Joe Boyce wrote the post or if Jessica Piper wrote the post.

I don't know who wrote the post, but the party is led by Tim Overton.

Okay? Okay? And that's the situation.

So for our audio listeners, this ad is basically a collage of different photos of the president with the words, quote, "America will never be a communist country," end quote, and at the end, it notes that this is, quote, "paid for by the US government." This is such a fascinating ad.

There's been so much chatter about it, but our colleague, Jessica Piper, had some really interesting tweets on X.

So she noted that according to Ad Impact, the US government has spent about $13,000 pushing this ad out, mostly to the DC market.

Obviously, those are very small numbers when we're talking about ad dollars.