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Pro-Santorum Super Pac releases GOP campaign's first negative 2016 ad
Source: The Guardian
Pro-Santorum Super Pac releases GOP campaign's first negative 2016 ad
Ben Jacobs in Washington
Monday 27 July 2015 20.57 BST
A Super Pac supporting the former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum has released the first negative ad of the 2016 race for the Republican presidential nomination.
The Working Again Pac unveiled an online-only ad that lauds Santorum as “the one consistent conservative” and also bashes the Kentucky senator Rand Paul and the former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee for being insufficiently so.
While Working Again is not disclosing how much money it is spending on the ad, the group confirmed to the Guardian: “It will run on multiple digital platforms including Facebook, YouTube and others.”
Paul, who is seen by some as relatively isolationist on foreign policy, is attacked for wanting to “continue America’s retreat … in the face of radical Islam”. Huckabee is criticised on education, for his past support for Common Core.
The ad is one of the first steps into what is expected to be a maelstrom of negative advertising over the next six months, across the 16-candidate Republican field. In a statement, Virginia Davis, a spokesperson for Working Again, defended the spot.
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Ben Jacobs in Washington
Monday 27 July 2015 20.57 BST
A Super Pac supporting the former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum has released the first negative ad of the 2016 race for the Republican presidential nomination.
The Working Again Pac unveiled an online-only ad that lauds Santorum as “the one consistent conservative” and also bashes the Kentucky senator Rand Paul and the former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee for being insufficiently so.
While Working Again is not disclosing how much money it is spending on the ad, the group confirmed to the Guardian: “It will run on multiple digital platforms including Facebook, YouTube and others.”
Paul, who is seen by some as relatively isolationist on foreign policy, is attacked for wanting to “continue America’s retreat … in the face of radical Islam”. Huckabee is criticised on education, for his past support for Common Core.
The ad is one of the first steps into what is expected to be a maelstrom of negative advertising over the next six months, across the 16-candidate Republican field. In a statement, Virginia Davis, a spokesperson for Working Again, defended the spot.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/27/rick-santorum-negative-campaign-ad-2016-election
