Will conservative attacks on Trump miss mark?

Published October 21, 2015 1:24am ET



The coming establishment Republican ad assault on Donald Trump will likely focus on one main charge: He’s not a conservative. Most of Trump’s critics on the right have made that point at one time or another, and a preview of future attacks — the anti-Trump ads run by the Club for Growth political action committee in Iowa in September — focused on Trump’s conservative apostasy.

“Which presidential candidate supports higher taxes, national health care, and the Wall Street bailout?” the ad asked. “It’s Donald Trump.” The spot went on to say that Trump “has a record, and it’s very liberal” and that he is “playing us [conservatives] for chumps.”

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