Just hours after Marco Rubio’s strong third-place showing in the Iowa caucuses, an ad from a pro-Rubio super political action committee has pivoted to show a three-man race in the Republican primary.
The Florida senator may have come in third place with 23 percent support in Iowa to Donald Trump’s second-place 24 percent, but both garnered seven delegates. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won with 28 percent and took in eight delegates.
“Ted Cruz says Donald Trump has boatloads of liberal positions,” a narrator says in the 30-second ad. “Donald Trump says Ted Cruz can’t beat the Democrats. Well, they’re both right.”
The ad from Conservative Solutions PAC, which is set to air in Nevada titled “Both Right,” pits Trump and Cruz against each other while calling Rubio the candidate who can unite the GOP and beat Hillary Clinton in the general election.
“Marco Rubio is the conservative who can win, and the Clinton machine knows it,” the narrator says. “Rubio beat the establishment. He’ll unite Republicans and restore the American dream. If you’re not with Marco, you’re electing the Democrats.”
