The ad, by Right to Rise USA, directly went after three of Bush’s rivals in the 2016 race: real-estate mogul Donald Trump and Sens.
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“When the attacks come here, the person behind this desk will have to protect your family”, a narrator says, with the voice set to images of the presidential desk in the Oval Office of the White House. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
The website JebBush.com now re-directs to Trump’s campaign website, DonaldJTrump.com, where viewers see Donald holding up a peace sign and his campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again”.
GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump has been trying to get under the skin of Jeb Bush since the campaign started, and in his latest effort, Trump re-directed a seemingly Bush-related website to his own campaign website.
“Will he have voted to drastically reduce counter-terrorism surveillance like Ted Cruz?” And it cites Rubio for having “skipped crucial national security hearings and votes in the Senate”.
“Twenty-seven generals and admirals support Jeb Bush because Jeb has the experience and knowledge to protect your family”, the narrator continued. The ad is to be broadcast in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada as well as nationally on the Fox News Channel. Regardless, the group plans to use what is believed to still be the largest political bank account in the country to air TV and digital advertising on Bush’s behalf. The real estate tycoon is threatening to sue a Bush supporter who published a Miami Herald ad slamming him as a “narcissistic BULLYionaire”, the newspaper reported. His team is promoting poll results showing that, in the Granite State, Bush is the second most trusted GOP candidate on national security, behind Trump. Bush used Twitter to call Trump “unhinged”.
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Bush could have avoided the embarrassment now facing his campaign by purchasing the high-profile domain name himself.
