Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster
A super PAC supporting Ted Cruz has its eyes trained on Marco Rubio.
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 bipartisan 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 one advertisement, Rubio is accused of using similar talking points as President Barack Obama when making his pitch for the 2013 Gang of Eight bill.
“Marco Rubio burned us once. He shouldn’t get the chance to sell us out again,” 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.
