The conservative super PAC Club for Growth Action plans to debut a seven-figure ad buy against Trump in Indiana on Friday, a state that is likely to play an important role in the Republican presidential front-runner’s bid for the nomination.
“There is now no state more important than Indiana for electing Cruz and keeping Trump from reaching 1,237,” Club for Growth president David McIntosh said in a statement released Thursday. “After success with our ads in Wisconsin, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Utah, CFG Action is about to blanket the Hoosier State with a simple message: To stop Trump, vote Cruz.”
Beginning Friday, the free market advocacy group will broadcast an ad across the state that urges Indiana voters to consider the current “math” in the race for the GOP nomination.
“If you don’t want Donald Trump to win, your choice comes down to this: math,” the ad states. “Only Ted Cruz can beat Donald Trump. A vote for Kasich actually helps Trump, by dividing the opposition.”
The $1.5 million ad buy is the latest push by the group to prevent the New York billionaire, who previously accused them of soliciting a million-dollar donation from him, from making it to the general election.
“With his responses to every new issue Donald Trump demonstrates that he is really a hardcore liberal,” McIntosh argued. “The polls show that he would be beaten badly in November, and the fallout would spread to House and Senate races, and ultimately the Supreme Court.”
As previously reported by the Washington Examiner, a great deal of uncertainty surrounds the Republican race in Indiana.
Virtually no public polling has taken place in the Hoosier State leading up to its primary next month, and nothing about the Republican electorate in the state suggests Trump or Texas Sen. Ted Cruz would be the clear favorite.
Five more states are set to hold their own nominating contests between now and the Indiana primary on May 7.
