Biden Is Outspending Trump On TV, And Just 6 States Are The Focus Of The Campaign - NPR

And based on that, it's pretty clear that the race between President Trump and Joe Biden is coming down to just six swing states — Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona.

And Democrats have keyed in even more closely on the six states: The Biden campaign and supporting groups have spent almost 90% of their money there, while Trump and Republican organizations have spent 78 cents of every dollar across the six.

The Biden campaign and Democratic groups supporting him are outspending Trump and his allies by $40 million since the beginning of the campaign, $379 million to $337 million.

Biden is getting more support from outside groups than Trump is.

The Biden campaign is outspending the Trump campaign, $245 million to $234 million, but outside groups supporting Biden are outspending outside groups supporting Trump as well, $134 million to $103 million.

Biden and allies are far outspending Republicans in the "Blue Wall" states.

Biden and Democrats supporting him can't be accused this year of ignoring Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the three former "Blue Wall" states that Trump flipped in his favor in 2016.

Trump won by fewer than 80,000 votes combined four years ago, and Biden and allies are making a push to take them back, outspending Trump and groups supporting him, $174 million to $103 million.

In addition to the focus on the big six states, Republicans have spent $32 million on Ohio and Iowa.

By comparison, Biden and allies have spent just $9 million in these two states.

Trump's team is outspending Biden in these three states Hillary Clinton won in 2016, by a combined $31 million to $19 million.

His campaign and allies have made it a focus, spending almost $12.8 million through the end of September to almost nothing from Biden and his supporters (about $50,000).

The Biden campaign has reserved nearly $3.9 million in ads in October and November so far.

What all of this spending shows is Trump is having to defend a lot of territory, while the Biden campaign has remained focused on the core states they set out to compete heavily in to begin with

To put that in context, in states Trump won in 2016, the president and groups supporting him have spent $356 million, while Biden has spent just $21 million in states Clinton won

Trump and allies: $6.1 million

Biden and allies: $3.4 million

Biden and allies: $6.7 million