Texas Sen. Ted Cruz released a 30-second ad Monday using the Supreme Court opening left by the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia to attack front-running GOP presidential rival Donald Trump for his past liberal positions.
Entitled
"Supreme Trust," the add brings up four high-profile and controversial issues that have come up and may return to the Supreme Court's docket.
"Life, marriage, religious liberty, the Second Amendment," a narrator says at the beginning of the ad. "We're just one Supreme Court justice away from losing them all."
The ad finishes with footage from Trump's 1999 interview with the late television "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert, who asked: "Would President Trump ban partial birth abortions?"
"Well, look. I'm very pro-choice," Trump replied, adding that "no," he would not ban partial birth abortion. "I am pro-choice in every respect."
"We cannot trust Donald Trump with these serious decisions," the narrator then declares.
The ad comes ahead of a South Carolina primary Saturday, where
polling by a Jeb Bush-backing super PAC shows Trump in first place, with a narrow 26 percent to 24 percent lead over Cruz, and Bush in third place, with a razor-thin 12 percent to 11 percent advantage over Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
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