One week ahead of the Iowa caucuses, GOP front-runner Donald Trump is unveiling a new strategy to widen the lead from his fellow contender, Ted Cruz. In his first real attack ad unveiled on Friday, Trump takes aim at Cruz’s record on immigration.
The 60-second ad, entitled “Clear Difference,” shows Trump slamming Cruz, saying he is “pro amnesty” on the contentious issue of immigration. Trump has repeatedly called for strong borders to be put up in the United States to keep illegal immigrants from entering the country without proper vetting and documentation.
The ad shows a clip of an interview from 2013 where Cruz is seemingly stumbling through an answer on Fox News on his voting record on immigration reform. “It sounded like you wanted the bill to pass,” Fox News anchor Brett Baier said in the interview clip. “Of course I wanted the bill to pass — my amendment to pass.” Baier interjected, “You said the bill.”
“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,” Cruz said in the interview clip, adding “I want immigration reform to pass and that allows those who are here illegally to come out of the shadows.”
The ad then cuts to text asking “What is he talking about?”
The ad aimed to show that Cruz is weak on immigration, while Trump vowed to “end illegal immigration and “secure our borders.”
The Trump campaign said it would spend $2 million to run the ad for two weeks in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
