GOP super PACs ramp up attack ads as primaries near
Republican super PACs are ramping up their ad campaigns with primary voting only two weeks away.
A super PAC backing Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, for president released its first 30-second ad on Tuesday, which will air on TV in Iowa and South Carolina.
"Who has stood up not just to Democrats but to leaders in our own party?" Cruz says in the ad released by Keep the Promise I. "When I tell you I'm going to do something, I'm going to exactly what I said I'd do."
The group is spending $2.5 million to air the ad, which features voters talking about why they trust Cruz. It will air in Iowa starting Tuesday through the caucuses there on Feb. 1, and in South Carolina starting next week.
Conservative Solutions PAC, which supports Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, for president, released three new TV ads on Tuesday, which it said will air in early primary states. Two of the ads attack Cruz on national security and on his tax plan. The other says that Rubio is "A Democrat Nightmare."
"Ted Cruz calculates his positions for political gain," a narrator in one of the ads says. "In the last year alone, Cruz switched on immigration, Syrian refugees, ethanol, trade, you name it."
Asked for additional detail, an aide told CBS News that the "three ads will be a significant part of our ongoing multimillion dollar buys in the first three states."
Earlier this month, the PAC unveiled an ad that targeted New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in New Hampshire.
Last week, the super PAC supporting former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Right to Rise, announced it is trying to raise $300,000 from small donors to air an ad in New Hampshire during the Super Bowl on Feb. 7., just two days before the primary.
CBS News' Sean Gallitz contributed to this story.
