Bay Area-native Keoua Medeiros saw an immediate opportunity when Joe Biden flubbed a campaign promo during his closing statement at the Democratic debate Wednesday night.
“If you agree with me, go to Joe 30330 and help me in this fight,” the former vice president said, pausing as he said the numbers and seemingly directing viewers of the CNN-hosted debate to a website. But the Democratic front-runner meant to say “Text Joe to 30330,” his campaign said in a statement the next day, adding, “oops.”
Within minutes, Medeiros had used the former vice president’s slip-up to drive online traffic to Snap A Prop, his Bay Area-based real estate, photography and marketing company’s website. Medeiros, and others, jumped on the mistake and bought similar domain names.
“It seemed like he didn’t know what he was saying,” Medeiros said of Biden.
Medeiros said he snapped up the domain joe3033.com for
Article source: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-01/bidens-flubbed-text-message-appeal-go-to-joe
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