Conservative super PAC launches anti-Trump ad blitz in S.C.

The free-market advocacy group previously ran a series of negative TV ads against the Democratic billionaire-turned-Republican
presidential hopeful in the earliest voting state, highlighting his close ties with the Clintons over the years. Trump is now fresh off a victory in New Hampshire and is heading into South Carolina, where the club hopes to diminish some of his momentum and prevent him from securing two consecutive victories.

Beginning Saturday, the group will air a 30-second ad against Trump in South Carolina on broadcast, cable and satellite television, and on various digital platforms. According to David McIntosh, president of Club for Growth Action, the total ad blitz is costing the PAC $1.5 million and will air until South Carolina’s Feb. 20 primary. The ad seeks to highlight Trump’s record of embracing big government policies and his own business failures over the years.

“Donald Trump is not a conservative,” McIntosh said. “He is a liberal on taxes, healthcare, eminent domain, and government bailouts. His record of bankruptcies and of donating to the Clintons and other big-government liberals needs to be exposed.”

McIntosh claims the group’s ads in Iowa successfully proved a point about Trump’s ties to Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton. “Track the polling averages from when the ads began in mid-September, and there was a clear and steady decline in Trump’s numbers through October that didn’t end until more than three weeks after the ads.

“That decline even caused Trump to lose his lead in Iowa, something that CFG Action showed in its own polling on Oct. 6, 2015,” he noted. “The ads worked then and CFG Action is convinced that South Carolina Republicans will also reject Trump’s phony conservative claims.”