Ted Cruz’s supporters made a large ad buy in Arizona and Utah ahead of next Tuesday’s primaries.
Trusted Leadership PAC, a super PAC formed as an extension of several pro-Cruz groups, will spend $200,000 on television ads in Utah and $380,000 in Arizona. The group will also spend more than $80,000 total on the radio in both states.
The first ad, titled “Ready on Day One,” casts the 2016 race as Cruz versus Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders.
“With so much at stake this election, we can’t afford to take a chance this election,” a narrator says as Trump, Clinton, and Sanders flash onscreen. “Ted Cruz is the only candidate who’s taken on the Washington cartel time after time and won.”
The ad calls Cruz a “real-life conservative leader” and shows him praying and carrying a gun.
“Senator Ted Cruz is the only candidate ready to lead this nation from day one,” said Chip Roy, executive director of the Trusted Leadership PAC and former chief of staff to Cruz in the senate, in a statement. “He has the experience, the commitment and the conviction to not only secure the GOP nomination but to beat Hillary Clinton in the general election. The race is down to two men and Ted Cruz is the only one who is a proven constitutional conservative.”
Cruz will campaign along the southern border in Arizona on Friday. He will visit Utah on Saturday.
