Report: Pro-Ted Cruz super PAC goes after Marco Rubio in new advertisements

According to James Hohmann's The Daily 202, Keep the Promise I, a Cruz super PAC, is launching four new advertisements, including one that hits Rubio on immigration. The 30-second spot features Senate Democratic leaders talking about Rubio's involvement in a biapartisan immigration bill proposed several years ago.

The words "Marco Rubio has some strange friends when it comes to immigration" flash on the screen, before clips of Sens. Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer begin airing.

Hohmann reports the super PAC is also sending a mailer to more than 250,000 likely voters that links Rubio to Schumer, Reid and Hillary Clinton. The organization, according to the report, is also releasing a digital advertisement that hits the Florida Republican for supporting sugar subsidies.

But the super PAC isn't the only one going after Rubio. According to The Daily 202, Cruz is also airing two commercials that targets Rubio on immigration. In on advertisement, Rubio is accused of using similar talk points as President Barack Obama when making his pitch for the 2013 Gang of Eight bill.

â€œMarco Rubio burned us once. He shouldnâ€™t get the chance to sell us out again,â€ a woman says at the end of the advertisement.

Cruz and Rubio are battling for second in South Carolina. The Palmetto State's Republican primary is Saturday.

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldnâ€™t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

" Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams

I too hope it doesn’t go Rubio, but it’s looking like that’s who the GOP/big money donors are now getting behind. I’ll vote for whoever wins the nomination because 4 years of Bernie or Hillary might be enough to do this country in. I would happily vote for Cruz or Trump, would vote for Kasich, and would vote holding my nose for Rubio or Bush. Carson seems pretty much out of it at this point - I think he would have made a good peace-time president, but I guess I’d prefer him to Bush or Rubio.

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