President Donald Trump points to cheering supporters as he leaves a campaign rally, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

The Trump campaign has come up with some clever merch in recent months to troll TDS sufferers and capitalize on media-driven “scandals” involving President Trump. So it’s no surprise that in advance of tonight’s Democratic presidential debate the campaign has upped their game a notch.

ABC 13 reports:

While some may be anticipating sparks to fly between Democratic candidates onstage, the Trump campaign plans to literally fly its counter messaging in the air above Houston ahead of Thursday’s debate.



President Donald Trump’s campaign intends to counter-program the Democratic primary debate hosted by ABC News and Univision with an ad blitz that includes two front-page newspaper ads and flying a massive banner in the air that blasts socialism just before candidates take the stage.



“Socialism will kill Houston’s economy!” the ad reads, along with a number to text, according to a rendering provided to ABC News by a Trump campaign official.



The campaign is spending around $7,500 for the flight and production of the ad, which is scheduled to fly from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. local time — an hour before Democrats are set to square-off in their first one-night debate this cycle.

Here’s what it reportedly will look like:

The Trump campaign's hired a plane to fly a banner over Houston ahead of #DemDebate3. The message: "Socialism will kill Houston's economy! Vote Trump 2020" https://t.co/tjwbja1eJU via @ABC13Houston — Ashley Sutton (@AshSuttonSA) September 12, 2019

The campaign told Fox News that this will be the first time they’ve done something like this during a Democratic debate, but “note they used a similar tactic on Labor Day, flying banners over beachgoers in a number of cities, urging people to add their phone numbers to the campaign’s list of supporters.” Plus:

Last weekend, the Republican National Committee ran ads on an electronic billboard outside of an arena in Manchester, N.H., where nearly the entire field of Democratic presidential contenders were addressing a state party convention. The billboard read “Welcome to the 2020 Democratic Circus!”

Here’s a photo of the billboard:

2020 Watch-Now: One of the rotating electronic billboard ads put up by the @GOP diagonally across the street from the @SNHUArena_NH – where 19 Democratic presidential candidates are speaking at @NHDems annual convention #NHpolitics #FITN #2020Election pic.twitter.com/fpgiqnS0zn — Paul Steinhauser (@steinhauserNH1) September 7, 2019

Tonight’s debate is scheduled to start at 8pm Eastern time and will be broadcast on ABC and Univision. Here are the candidates who qualified:

BREAKING: The final lineup for the third Democratic debate is set for a single night in Houston on Sept. 12. Join @ABC News for complete live coverage beginning at 7 p.m. ET. on https://t.co/Y0tL8hjehF or on your favorite streaming device. https://t.co/4RsUJhHOco pic.twitter.com/hpsCh5bguy — ABC News (@ABC) August 29, 2019

The debate will be held on one night, unlike the last two which had to be held over a two night time frame because so many of the candidates met the DNC’s criteria to make it on to the stage.

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