Donald Trump to run his first TV ads in key markets this week

For the first time in his campaign, Donald Trump said he plans on running television ads in crucial early-voting states.

On Fox News Tuesday night, Trump told Sean Hannity that over the next two days, his campaign will start running ads in Iowa, New Hampshire, and probably South Carolina. His Republican opponents have aired spots against him, something Trump argues is a mistake. "Anyone that hits me, we're going to hit them 10 times harder," he said. "We have more money than anybody else by a factor of about a thousand."

Up until now, Trump said his campaign has "spent nothing" because "we haven't needed it." He's also pretty sure the anti-Trump ads aren't having their intended effect. "I think the negative ads are going to hurt the Republicans much more than it's going to hurt me," he said.

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