Cruz Ad Portrays Trump As Doll Who ‘Pretends To Be A Republican’ (VIDEO)

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A new ad from Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) presidential campaign portrays Donald Trump as an action figure masquerading as a Republican.

The 45-second spot shows children explaining that the Trump doll “pretends to be a Republican” who likes “bailouts for the banks” and donates to Democrats. The Trump doll also encounters a Hillary Clinton doll who Trump pays to be his friend.

The children playing with the Trump action figure then smash down a “lousy” dollhouse using eminent domain.

At the end of the ad, a narrator says, “We wouldn’t tolerate these values in our children. Why would we want them in a president?”

Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler told the Independent Journal Review that the ad will “make a serious issue easy to understand and fun.”

Watch the ad:

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