Florida’s presidential primary is less than two weeks away and organizations are moving full speed ahead with attacks against current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
Conservative political advocacy group Club For Growth just bought $1.5 million worth of ad buys for TV and digital outlets as Republican candidates count down the day’s until Florida’s primary election.
Club For Growth has already run attack ads against Trump in Oklahoma and Arkansas, states where Trump either loss or won by a small margin.
The group says Trump’s close numbers show in both states (especially in Oklahoma) are directly correlated with its massive ad buys in those states.
“Donald Trump’s loss last night in Oklahoma and his razor thin margin in Arkansas are due, in no small part, to CFG Action’s television ads that tell the truth about Trump,” said Club for Growth president David McIntosh. “We’ve used a simple and effective method of exposing the most liberal, big-government candidate in the Republican race. Trump has also tried to abuse eminent domain to take the property of an elderly widow, and has hidden behind bankruptcy laws to avoid paying bills. And that’s the message that Club for Growth is putting on television in Florida.”
As McIntosh indicated, the club’s Florida ad slams Trump for a lack of foreign policy skills, saying he doesn’t have the actual skills necessary to be the country’s next president.
“Donald Trump talks tough about China and Mexico,” says the ad’s narrator. “But who has Trump ever actually taken on?”
The ad continues, saying Trump hides behind international bankruptcy laws to avoid paying his bills and contends Trump kills American jobs.
The ad also alludes to Trump’s support of an eminent domain attack on an elderly widow who refused to sell her Atlantic City home to be bulldozed to make way for Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino’s Atlantic City operation.
In 1994, the government agency Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, attempted to seize the widow’s home, attempting to invoke “eminent domain,” which refers to the government’s right to acquire private property for public use.
“Trump picks on workers and widows,” the ad continues.
McIntosh said the ad was important to block Trump’s steamroll towards becoming the GOP’s next presidential nominee.
“Trump must be stopped before he costs conservatives the White House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court,” he said.
Other big money groups are joining forces to try to take down Trump in Florida. Their anti-Trump efforts will attempt to undermine Trump’s image and are considered by many to be one of the final efforts to push away Trump in the winner-take-all Sunshine State.
Trump, however, doesn’t seem too bothered by the prospect of conservative PACs fighting against him.
“We’re going to go to Florida, we’re going to spend so much time in Florida,” Trump said Tuesday in Palm Beach. “I know that a lot of groups, a lot of the special interests and a lot of the lobbyists and the people that want to have their little senator do exactly as they want...but he’s not going anywhere anyway.”
Watch the ad below.
