Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says the world is beset with dangers that the Obama administration has failed to manage in a new television ad that will begin airing in New Hampshire on Wednesday.
The ad, titled “Lunatic,” says President Obama has allowed U.S. national security to erode under his watch, even as Rubio’s foreign policy plans have been attacked by several rival Republican candidates over the last few days.
“Today, we face ever growing threats: radical Islamic terror, a lunatic in North Korea, a gangster in Moscow, and a president more respectful to the Ayatollah of Iran than the prime minister of Israel,” Rubio says in the ad. “Our allies don’t trust us. Our enemies don’t fear us. And the world doesn’t know where America stands. On day one of my presidency that will change.”
The 30-second spot from the Rubio campaign follows a new ad set to air in Iowa from Jeb Bush’s super PAC that attacks Rubio’s absence from the U.S. Senate while on the campaign trail. A super PAC supporting Rubio responded in kind on Tuesday, releasing its own ad targeting Bush.
With little more than one month remaining until the Iowa caucuses, Rubio ranks fourth in the Washington Examiner‘s newest GOP presidential power rankings. Bush ranks fifth.
