Posted on 01/17/2016 6:35:43 PM PST by TBBT
Super PACs supporting Republican Ted Cruz's presidential campaign released a new digital ad Sunday that counters rival Donald Trump's recent attacks on the senator from Texas by using Trump's own words.
The 60-second spot is part of a coordinated six-figure buy by affiliated groups that call themselves Keep the Promise and are backed by Cruz's biggest donors.
It comes hours after tensions between Trump and Cruz escalated when Trump told ABC's "This Week" that Cruz is a "very nasty guy."
"Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him. He's a very -- he's got an edge that's not good," Trump said.
Kellyanne Conway, a longtime Republican strategist and president of one of the Keep the Promise groups, said that Cruz allies decided to promptly respond - and that Trump's scathing criticism Sunday did not echo what he said a few years ago.
"Guess who likes Cruz? Donald Trump. He calls him 'brave' and 'a special guy' in our new ad," Conway said in a statement.
The ad begins with a black-and-white photograph of the two GOP rivals together in happier times. Audio of Trump's effusive introduction of Cruz at a 2014 fundraising event in Florida plays over a montage.
Speaking at a Republican dinner held at Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach club, Trump showered praise on Cruz for his efforts to repeal President Obama's health-care law that led to a federal government shutdown.
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You think Trump has no Wall St connection? Who finances his business to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars? WALL STREET BANKS.
That’s hugely more beholden than a one time personal loan of one million that Cruz took and has paid off half.
And at the debate Trump said his children would take over his business instead of putting it in a blind trust. So he will STILL be beholden to Wall Street while he is president.
The Trumpsters remind me of people that got
screwed from a used car salesman and drove
away in a hump d thinking they got the best of them>
Idiots!
The Trumpsters remind me of people that got
screwed from a used car salesman and drove
away in a hump d thinking they got the best of them>
Idiots!
Funny how Trump will immediately change his public opinions whenever it suits him politically, but his supporters still trust him to not immediately reverse everything he’s saying now after he gets elected?
Trump is the ultimate opportunist. Once he makes the deal with you, he’ll do everything he can to re-negotiate it in his favor. That’s the art of the deal.
Trump said repeatedly he paid off politicians to get what he wanted all his life.
So if it’s bad for someone to pay off a politician, why is it good to elect the guy who was DOING the paying off in the first place?
You can’t have it both ways. Either the guy doing the paying off will be good as president or be a good influence on politicians, or he will be a bad president and a bad influence.
We never supported Cruz for the Senate because we wanted a nice guy. We wanted someone who was going to fight for our values. Trump supporters always say they like that Trump’s not nice, so I don’t see the division here.
Cruz won’t do “whatever it takes” to win, like constantly “evolve” on his core values. We know Cruz is a lifelong conservative. He didn’t have to flip-flop to get there.
Trump is a liberal sucker puncher.
The doubts about Cruz being qualified under the constitution are a steady and powerful drag.
Damn proof reading, Tump can say he has NO objection. This politics, everything is fair game. It’s a fact, I think, that soundbites from any candidate can be used to endorse or undercut any other candidate.
Swing and miss. I sold cars for many years. New and used.
-— Guess who likes Cruz? Donald Trump. He calls him ‘brave’ and ‘a special guy’ in our new ad,” Conway said in a statement. -—
The thing about habitual lying is it’s hard to keep the lies straight.
“What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”
There is not much logic. I don’t see facts.
Really, Hey, aren’t you the one that posted that faked Donald Trump tweet just like the one Beck came out and apologized for? I believe it was around the 12th of December, and on a Trump rally thread?
Probably so. I had read so. Didn’t link it to Beck, I never watch or listen to him.
Freepers have gone back years looking at my history. Have fun.
Note that I can admit I made a mistake?
It still blows my mind all you guys adore the man with no principles, no idea of even basic civics and is campaigning straight out of the left and Huck’s playbook. Amazing.
And you trust DT to appoint conservative federal and SC justices? Lolol.
You may want to change your tagline if your posting fake tweets about someone.
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