Club for Growth, a conservative super PAC, will soon launch its third seven-figure ad campaign against Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump in two of the 11 states set to vote on March 1.
The announcement comes 24 hours after Katie Packer, the founder Our Principles PAC, called on GOP leaders and groups to rally together to end the billionaire’s White House bid.
“Club for Growth Action will continue to expose the truth about Donald Trump’s long liberal record of support for higher taxes, national health care, and government bailouts,” said the group’s president, David McIntosh, said in a statement.
“As CFG Action has shown throughout this campaign, there is no greater indictment of how terrible Donald Trump would be as president than his own words,” he added.
The million-dollar ad buy will begin airing Wednesday, the day after the fourth nominating contest in Nevada, on broadcast, cable and satellite television in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Recent state-level polls show Trump led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and tied with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 23 percent support in Arkansas and edging Cruz by five percentage points in Oklahoma.
According to the 30-second ad, the New York businessman is “just playing us for chumps” and wants voters to think “he’s mister tell-it-like-it-is.”
The free-market group previously ran ads against Trump in Iowa and South Carolina, where Trump finished second and first, respectively. Now, with Trump poised to secure his third victory in Nevada, Club for Growth Action hopes its negative ad blitz will do enough damage in states where he is most vulnerable.
“During the time a CFG Action ad ran in South Carolina, [Trump’s] numbers… declined by more than five points,” McIntosh noted. Trump, however, still managed to finish 10 percentage points ahead of Rubio, thus winning all 50 of the state’s GOP delegates.
Trump is currrently first in the Washington Examiner‘s presidential power rankings.
