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Donald Trump Releases New Ad Slamming Ted Cruz As 'Pro Amnesty'
TPM ^ | January 22, 2016, 6:55 AM EST | Caitlin MacNeal

Posted on 01/22/2016 10:10:00 AM PST by Red Steel

Donald Trump on Friday morning released a new campaign ad that accuses Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of flip-flopping on immigration and supporting "amnesty."

The 60-second television spot starts with a Fox News interview between Bret Baier and Cruz from late last year in which Baier grilled Cruz on his comments about the immigration reform bill in 2013.

"It sounded like you wanted the bill to pass," Baier told Cruz in December.

Cruz stumbled and mumbled before responding, "Of course I wanted the bill to pass, what — my amendment to pass, what my amendment did is take citizenship off the table but it doesn’t mean, what it doesn't mean that I supported other aspects of the bill."

The Trump ad labels Cruz as "pro-immigration" and asks, "What is he talking about?"

The ad then cuts to to comments made by Cruz in 2013, when he urged the Senate to pass an immigration reform compromise that would allow "those who are here illegally to come out of the shadows."

The Trump ad labels Cruz "pro amnesty," then cuts to Trump laying out his immigration proposals.

"To have a country, you have to have borders," Trump says in the ad.

Trump's first attack ad on Cruz will run in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. The Trump campaign did not specify how much the candidate would spend airing the ad, but said that the campaign will spend $2 million each week on advertising.

Watch the ad on Trump's campaign website.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: New Hampshire; US: South Carolina
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1 posted on 01/22/2016 10:10:00 AM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

Why doesn’t Trump focus on Hitlery? Ask why she isn’t being arrested?


2 posted on 01/22/2016 10:11:46 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: Red Steel

BAM! There it is.


3 posted on 01/22/2016 10:12:08 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
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To: Red Steel

Advice for Trump, Cruz, etc. Promote your own agenda.

Dip into the attack ads at your own peril. You’re just going to give away votes - and honestly, I don’t want you paying the media to drive away your votes.


4 posted on 01/22/2016 10:12:34 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Red Steel

The ad: Cruz is Pro Amnesty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE-pqDnlzcs


5 posted on 01/22/2016 10:13:05 AM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: Red Steel

Ted Cruz Says Donald Trump’s Immigration Policy Amounts to ‘Amnesty’

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3387188/posts


6 posted on 01/22/2016 10:13:44 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: Red Steel

Who want to “EXPEDITE” the reentry of 11,000,000 illegals?


7 posted on 01/22/2016 10:14:17 AM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: Red Steel

The ad: Cruz is Pro Amnesty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE-pqDnlzcs


8 posted on 01/22/2016 10:14:20 AM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: Proud2BeRight
Sen. Cruz Amendment to Immigration Legislation to Increase H-1B Visas
9 posted on 01/22/2016 10:18:22 AM PST by kabar
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To: Red Steel

I’m sorry but attack ads do not have to be truthful!!!


10 posted on 01/22/2016 10:19:31 AM PST by tallyhoe
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To: Red Steel

I’m fed up with both of them. I’m leaning Rubio. I like his position regarding abortion.


11 posted on 01/22/2016 10:19:41 AM PST by Mercat (But God prefers crockpots to microwaves.)
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To: Red Steel

The we also heve this :

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3387188/posts

Ted Cruz Says Donald Trump’s Immigration Policy Amounts to ‘Amnesty’


12 posted on 01/22/2016 10:20:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Red Steel

I like Trump. I really do.

But Trump needs an ad right now getting out in front of the reports that he had/has a sweet money deal with Goldman Sachs. The Democrats are going to clobber him with questions about his close Goldman Sachs ties.

I can’t tell you how many people are asking “what does Goldman Sachs expect from Trump for giving him a sweet money deal?”

The only reason I bring up Trump’s sweet money deal with Goldman Sachs is I am doing Trump a favor. Because I really, really like Trump.


13 posted on 01/22/2016 10:22:19 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: Red Steel

Says the guy whose plan is send them all out and then most of them right back in legally, Of course that’s not amnesty, it’s................well hell!


14 posted on 01/22/2016 10:29:10 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Red Steel; All

Ted Cruz’s Immigration Advice to George W. Bush

As a policy aide on Mr. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign, Mr. Cruz struck a very different tone on immigration than he is offering today. Disliked Prop 187, doesn’t want English as an official language, more cheap imported labor, more immigration....and worse. THE REAL TED CRUZ.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/18/us/politics/immigration-document.html?_r=0


15 posted on 01/22/2016 10:31:19 AM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: jeffersondem

Lol, I like it!


16 posted on 01/22/2016 10:32:03 AM PST by mtrott
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To: Mercat

You mean the open borders guy?


17 posted on 01/22/2016 10:33:10 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore)
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To: Red Steel

Most of you C guys don’t even know. This how it works. Trump brings some back after the US employers cannot find US workers to do the jobs then the immigrant gets a temporary work visa to work at Holiday Inns. And he’s the only candidate who wants to deport them instead of giving them amnesty in place and inside the United States.


18 posted on 01/22/2016 10:36:11 AM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: Red Steel

I’ve noticed the more Cruz stutters and stammers, the deeper the bulls**t is.


19 posted on 01/22/2016 10:37:39 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: Red Steel

The only way Trump can attack Cruz, is from the left, with trumped up (no pun intended) propaganda hit pieces, taken out of context, in order to push an agenda. Just like the left does. And it is interesting to note, that Trump is spending more time attacking those in his own party, than he is the Democrats.


20 posted on 01/22/2016 10:40:22 AM PST by Lucky9teen (God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning, and I believe God isn't done yet. TCruz)
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