Was that hired help or stock footage?
Why would that matter? According to grania, the issue is that they were not using the real people that were supposed to be portrayed in the ad. Now I never saw the Cruz ad, so I don’t know what the actress was portraying. But according to the articles I read, she at least claims to be a conservative, so I suppose it is possible it was an accurate portrayal - I don’t know. But this is just another of those cases where many Trump supporters are trying to make a nothing issue into some scandal. I don’t think Trump actually picked out the footage in his ad, any more than I think Cruz interviews and hires the people that appear in his ads.