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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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."
Do a guy a favor...
Very effective. I assume there will many more great ads like this.
The Cruzers remind me of the PUMA people from 2008.
It’s revealing that your response to actual video of Trump is a photo-shopped picture.
Cruz is the real deal as is the video and Trump is as phony as the photo-shopped picture.
Cruz is still trying to use Trump to get headlines, never could on his own. Hope Trump ignores him totally, refuses to discuss him.
Let’s see how well Cruz does when he’s not dragging Trump into his campaign on an hourly basis.
Clever ad.
The only credibility Trump has left is credibly insane.
Is it just me or has the Cruz bashing changed? Maybe I am worn out. There is not much logic. I don’t see facts.
It’s just the Alynski coming out of them. You just see the liberals they always were now. They did the same thing trying to convince people they should vote for the Aborted Baby Chef.
Thanks and thanks for answering.
Some of the Trumpsters would rather argue ad hominem instead of rhetoric and actions.
Juvenile. This is just one more example of Trump not bothering to think before he opens his mouth. The day before yesterday, it was his good friend Ted Cruz. Today Cruz is a very nasty guy. Tomorrow, what? Ted Cruz kills puppies and wants forced baptisms of liberals, atheists, Jews, and Muslims? And no matter what random nastiness Trump blurts out, his supporters don't seem to care.
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