South Carolina television stations have started to pulled out ads from Stand for Truth, the "super PAC" in support of Senator Ted Cruz for creating negative claims against Marco Rubio, after a legal review.
According to a report, the advertisement, entitled "Sanctuary," was a version by super PAC attacking on Marco Rubio's immigration record. It has used the December attacks on California to start fear of terrorists sneaking into the country without legal papers, and has cited the immigration deal Mr. Rubio pushed in Congress in 2013 that "allow sanctuary cities."
According to Randy Ingram, the general manager of WBTW in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, said that although he could not recall the details, the legal team's decision is final and are actually reviewed, and they finally decided to pull the ads and have it substituted as needed.
"I'm not sure why legal decides we run something different," Ingram said, denying he knew who requested the ad to be pulled out. He added Stand for Truth replaced "Sanctuary" ad with a different spot in its advertising rotation.
"The Sanctuary ad aired statewide on both television and digital in Iowa with no objection, receiving hundreds of thousands of views on digital," Spokesperson Atty. Eric Lycan of Stand for Truth said in a statement.
He attributed it to a complaint from the Rubio campaign, and said that the ad has continued to air across the Palmetto State and will resume on the station in question.
"The Rubio campaign convinced one station that his Gang of Eight amnesty bill, which turned a blind eye to sanctuary cities and allowed them to continue to flout the law, is somehow different from actively supporting them. This was a Friday afternoon ploy to keep South Carolina voters from hearing the message about Rubio's disastrous record on border security," Lycan said.
"Sen. Cruz will say or do anything to win an election including employing underhanded tactics and making charges against all his opponents that he knows are outright lies. America can't afford more politicians like Ted Cruz who will easily sacrifice principle for political gain," spokesman Joe Pounder expressed in the statement.
The super PAC reportedly cost millions of dollars just to criticize the rivals of Ted Cruz. In this case, they spent $125,000 to air the "Sanctuary" ad on digital platforms and TV stations of Iowa. The super PAC aired in South Carolina before it was pulled out.
