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A new ad from the Jeb Bush super PAC hits Marco Rubio for missing votes and key national security meetings in Washington. "Politics first, that's the Rubio way," a narrator says. The ad will run in Iowa for the next two weeks at a cost of $1.4 million, according to Right to Rise. The ad is the hardest-hitting yet from Right to Rise and is bound to stir new tension between the opposing camps. Rubio has one of the worst attendance records of any current senator.

Jeb Bush says he didn't see the 112-page memo from his presidential campaign detailing why rival Marco Rubio is a "risky bet" for the Republican Party before it leaked. "I didn't see it," Bush said in an interview aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Well, I read about it when it was leaked for sure. I didn't know about the PowerPoint." The former Republican governor from Florida said that detailing his differences with other candidates is part of a campaign, but stressed he wants his staff to focus on winning the early presidential caucus and primary states and bringing...