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A new ad from Right to Rise, the Super PAC supporting former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s presidential bid, criticizes Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for missing national security briefings, hearings, and important votes in the Senate.
The 30-second spot slams Rubio for putting politics first by skipping votes and briefings to attend fundraisers.
Right to Rise will spend $1.43 million to play the ad in Iowa Dec. 29 and Jan. 11, according to the Des Moines Register.
Rubio’s campaign on Tuesday protested the ad, arguing that the ad’s claim that Rubio skipped a national security briefing on Nov. 18 after the Paris terrorist attacks amounts to “intellectual dishonesty” because the senator attended a similar hearing the day before.
“Bush’s team dishonestly omits that Marco is on the Senate’s Intelligence Committee, where he attended the highest level briefings on the Paris attacks,” Rubio spokesman Alex Conant told MSNBC. “No other candidate for president has received more classified Intelligence briefings or better understands the threats facing our nation today than Marco. It’s sad to see Jeb’s ‘joyful’ campaign reduced to such intellectual dishonesty.”
