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Trump Faces Last-Minute Ad Assault (Super PAC '7 figure' ad buy in Iowa)
Politico ^ | Tuesday, January 26, 2016 | Alex Isenstadt

Posted on 01/26/2016 3:56:51 AM PST by kristinn

With less than a week until the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump is facing an 11th-hour barrage of negative advertising - with a new anti-Trump group spending more than $1 million in a last-ditch effort to defeat him.

Our Principles PAC, a newly formed super PAC set up by a former top aide to Mitt Romney, is set to begin airing a TV ad in Iowa that calls into question his devotion to conservative positions - and asks Iowa voters bluntly, "How much do we really know about Donald Trump?"

The ad, which invokes Trump's past statements on hot-button issues like abortion and health care, marks one of the most aggressive efforts yet to take down the billionaire businessman, who leads most state and national polls and is in a competitive battle with Ted Cruz in Iowa.

Katie Packer, who served as Romney's deputy campaign manager in the 2012 election and who now heads Our Principles PAC, declined to give an exact figure for how much the anti-Trump group was spending to air the commercial, though a source familiar with the TV buy said it was in the "seven-figure" range.

Trump is also confronting an onslaught of attacks from Ted Cruz's campaign and two allied super PACs - all of which on Monday released commercials that, like Packer's, highlights the real estate mogul's past liberal positions. One, from the pro-Cruz super PAC Stand for Truth, uses footage from a 1999 interview in which Trump says that he is "pro-choice in every respect."

The late attacks come just days before the first votes of the primary are cast - and come at a time when some of Trump's rivals are openly wondering whether Iowa represents their last chance to stop him.

"If Donald wins Iowa, he right now has a substantial lead in New Hampshire, if he went on to win New Hampshire as well, there is a very good chance he could be unstoppable and be our nominee," Cruz told a gathering of Iowa pastors on Monday.

"If he wins Iowa the dominoes begin to fall," said Matt Dowd, who served as chief strategist on George W. Bush's 2004 reelection campaign. "It will be very hard to stop him at that point. He has all the momentum. And keep in mind no GOP candidate has lost the nomination who has been in Trump's position at this point."

SNIP


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: cruz; iowa; katiepacker; katiepackergage; mittromney; ourprinciplespac; romney; trump
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1 posted on 01/26/2016 3:56:51 AM PST by kristinn
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To: kristinn

I saw the ad. It’s a rerun of the Russert interview that people have seen hundreds of times and couldn’t care less about. Ironic coming from the Romney aide.

These efforts will rally Trump supporters to go out and vote.


2 posted on 01/26/2016 4:01:42 AM PST by Helicondelta
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To: kristinn

Romney and his GOPe ilk are so damn good attacking fellow Republicans and spineless against Democrats.


3 posted on 01/26/2016 4:06:06 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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Romney and his GOPe ilk are so damn good attacking fellow Republicans and spineless against Democrats.


Romney is a political criminal who by his spineless crimes of omission single-handedly gave us the Obama second term.


4 posted on 01/26/2016 4:11:03 AM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: kristinn; onyx

Last minute assault?
When have they ever stopped?

24/7 for the last 7 months they have attacked him nonstop!.....over and over, every which way

If he isn’t an example of ....’Here I am, Lord, send me’.....he is close to it!

And I believe the Lord has given him daily strength to mount up as eagles and soar, God love him!


5 posted on 01/26/2016 4:11:10 AM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: kristinn
I don't think I'd like to be an Iowan or New Hampshireite (what is a native of New Hampshire called?) during these election battles.

They must be bombarded by political advertising and pollsters constantly.

I'd be sick of the whole process by now. How do they get any downtime?

6 posted on 01/26/2016 4:15:15 AM PST by TontoKowalski (Satisfied Customer #291)
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To: Helicondelta

have you seen the new info at Conservative Tree House? Looks like one of the leaders of Cruz pacs is McConnell’s lawyer. Also lawyer for CoC people. Also responsible for anti Trump ads. Cruz is looking like he’s not the outsider he wants us to think he is.


7 posted on 01/26/2016 4:17:59 AM PST by magglepuss (Don't tread on me)
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To: Helicondelta
I saw the ad. It's a rerun of the Russert interview that people have seen hundreds of times and couldn’t care less about.

You make the common mistake of equating the awareness of FReepers with that of the general public. This is a well timed roll out that will expose uninformed people to The Real Donald Trump.

8 posted on 01/26/2016 4:19:51 AM PST by don-o (Where did my tagline go?)
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To: kristinn
I bet the people of Iowa are sick of campaign ads by now, and will be even more disgusted come next Monday.

They all go negative against their opponents at the end. Nature of the beast.

9 posted on 01/26/2016 4:21:47 AM PST by Cboldt
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"If Donald wins Iowa, he right now has a substantial lead in New Hampshire, if he went on to win New Hampshire as well, there is a very good chance he could be unstoppable and be our nominee," Cruz told a gathering of Iowa pastors on Monday.

This telegraphs weakness. I'm sure there is context in the meeting, but that context is missing in this news report.

10 posted on 01/26/2016 4:23:57 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: don-o

Jeb, Cruz and the Club for Growth already ran similar ads about the Russert interview. Most Iowans have probably seen it by now.


11 posted on 01/26/2016 4:24:56 AM PST by Helicondelta
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To: Cboldt

I saw that too. The context is help me win Iowa. If I don’t win there nobody can stop Trump. It doesn’t sound like Cruz has anywhere to go if he loses.


12 posted on 01/26/2016 4:28:36 AM PST by Helicondelta
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To: kristinn
a former top aide to Mitt Romney, is set to begin airing a TV ad in Iowa that calls into question his devotion to conservative positions

Irony anyone?

13 posted on 01/26/2016 4:29:28 AM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: Helicondelta; Norm Lenhart; CatherineofAragon; C. Edmund Wright

Wow. If you are tracking all that, when do you have time to sleep, eat or work?

Are you on Trump’s staff?


14 posted on 01/26/2016 4:31:20 AM PST by don-o (Where did my tagline go?)
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To: kristinn

A Romney-linked PAC accusing Trump of not being conservative? That’s rich. Can you spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y?


15 posted on 01/26/2016 4:31:54 AM PST by twister881
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To: kristinn

LOL... I love it when they splice and dice an interview. /sarc


16 posted on 01/26/2016 4:34:19 AM PST by PJBankard (It is the spirit of the men who leads that gains the victory. - Gen. George Patton)
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To: don-o

It doesn’t take that long. Keep in mind that these are 30 second ads ;)


17 posted on 01/26/2016 4:37:33 AM PST by Helicondelta
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To: kristinn

i suspect rat hole down which the money is stuffed


18 posted on 01/26/2016 4:37:35 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: kristinn

Well, good luck to these ad buyers. They’ll need it. Trump may be shaky on the conservative history here and there but we all SAW him do what NONE EVER DO in our PC and cowardly age: outrage political correctness and then calmly quadruple down in the raging tempest that followed. The guy is Shane or Doc Holliday out there. He IMPRINTED on the minds of people who had all been wondering where the HELL the damn MEN were. This goes a lot deeper than intellectual persuasion and Trump himself is going to have to one eighty on what he’s been saying before a lot if people bail on him.


19 posted on 01/26/2016 4:43:39 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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To: twister881; Helicondelta; hoosiermama

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Attorney Heads Pro-Cruz, Anti-Trump Super PAC…

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/26/senate-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnell-attorney-heads-pro-cruz-anti-trump-super-pac/

There is a Super-PAC called “Stand for Truth” registered out of Lexington Kentucky headed by a guy named Eric Lycan.
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Mr. Eric Lycan was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s lawyer during his re-election campaign against Matt Bevin.

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Eric Lycan’s “Stand for Truth” Super-PAC is not only Pro-Cruz, it is also Anti-Donald Trump.


20 posted on 01/26/2016 4:46:40 AM PST by Whenifhow
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