Trump pushes Muslim ban in opening TV ads

“So now, the Democratic field consists of a wild-eyed socialist, with ideas that are risky for America and the world, and Bernie Sanders”, Cruz said.

Trump, the ad continues, will “quickly cut the head off ISIS and take their oil”. “One high tax, Common Core, liberal energy loving, Obamacare Medicaid expanding president is enough”, one ad’s narrator says.

“This may not be a majority position in the country”, Luntz said of the Muslim ban.

“This candidacy will restore our faith in each other and our trust in American optimism”, he said.

“As voters become more frustrated”, he said, “angry voices sound more reasonable”. “I love him… we have to get him better”. “And you [know] what I have to say?”

The campaign insists “the biased mainstream media doesn’t understand, but Americans who want to protect their jobs and their families do”. Someone who is a leader. “Someone with proven experience”, Christie said.

“Now look, we’re not Democrats”, Cruz joked. “Of all the candidates running in either party, only I have that record”.

“He’s doubling down on the angry white man vote”, Republican strategist Katie Packer said of Trump’s new ad. “And guess what?”

“We have isolationist candidates who are apparently more passionate about weakening our military and intelligence capabilities than about destroying our enemies”. “We gave them five people for one dirty rotten traitor”, Trump said.

Santorum’s ad seems nearly quaint by comparison in its adherence to pre-Trump rules of politics. And they have every right to be.

“What am I going to do?” That promise is an evolution from Trump’s original passive rumination that it might be OK if the Russians took care of the terrorist group in Syria.

And Marco Rubio criticized his Republican rivals in a New Hampshire speech focused on national security. “He’s basically getting another news cycle out of this”, she said. Left unsaid is that the Rubio footage included is a spoof made by the candidate himself. Polls show that on the issue of terrorism, GOP voters trust Trump above all others.

Republican presidential contender Donald Trump‘s first TV ad was set to hit the airwaves Tuesday and hammer home some of his most controversial stances on Muslims and illegal immigrants, a message aimed at revving up his base for increasingly tough nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.

The ad is a distillation of the Trump pitch.

While Mr Trump spent about $300,000 on three radio adverts last fall, the release says his new television campaign will cost about $2 million (£1.4 million) a week in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

Huffmon said he believes ad spending will ramp up in SC after the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries.

And after the effectiveness of positive TV commercials came into question previous year, when tens of millions of dollars failed to lift Bush, January will offer insights into whether attack ads still have the power they did in past elections.