Trump faces wave of big-money attacks A Marco Rubio-focused group raises $20 million in the last wee [View all]
Source: Polititico
A handful of Republican big-money groups on Friday launched hard-hitting ad campaigns targeting Donald Trump that echoed Marco Rubio’s Thursday night debate smack-down of the GOP presidential front-runner.
The group behind what’s expected to be the most expensive and sustained assault ― a super PAC dedicated to Rubio called Conservative Solutions PAC ― has raised about $20 million in the past week alone, sources tell POLITICO. They say the cash will power a full-frontal assault on Trump in the delegate-rich states that vote in March, starting with Tuesday’s 14 Super Tuesday contests.
Taken together, the wave of big-money attack ads, which could total in the eight-figures, suggests that deep-pocketed conservative groups and their donors see the March contests as their last chance to stop the billionaire real-estate showman from winning the GOP nomination and taking over the party.
That prompted puzzlement among some Cruz supporters, who had hoped the super PACs would follow Cruz’s lead. Some suggested that the disconnect between the campaign and the super PACs reveals the difficulty posed by federal coordination restrictions, which bar campaigns and big-money groups from working together on advertising strategy. Though Cruz has been ramping up his attacks on Trump for weeks, so it shouldn’t have been hard for the super PAC operatives to follow suit.
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