Politico
By Nick Gass
September 1, 2015
Jeb
Bush's campaign is ratcheting up its attacks on Donald Trump, releasing
a video that paints the Republican presidential candidate as an
unabashed liberal. And Trump
is firing right back.
The
spot, titled "The Real Donald Trump," plays on two separate occasions a
clip of the billionaire candidate saying that he "lived in New York and
Manhattan my whole
life" and that "my views are a little bit different than if I had lived
in Iowa."
"Liberal
Things That Trump Says," the text on screen reads before flipping to
"Liberal Things That Trump Believes." Trump has made a point of
embracing his eclectic policy
views in the past, something that Bush's campaign is seizing upon in
the latest spot.
Trump
is shown in a 1999 "Meet the Press" interview telling Tim Russert that
he is "very pro-choice," though a dozen years later, Trump announced
that he opposed abortion
in most instances, except in cases of rape, incest or to protect the
health of the mother.
The
spot also highlights Trump's praise of single-payer health care systems
in Canada and in Scotland during last month's GOP debate, though it
does not include his qualifying
statement that although he thought it was a good idea for the U.S. in
the late 1990s, he does not believe that to now be the case.
Bush
and Trump, who is enjoying an unexpected surge to the top of Republican
polls, have been locked in a feud in recent weeks, with Trump
consistently needling Bush,
including releasing a blistering video Monday on Instagram slamming
Bush for being lenient toward undocumented immigrants.
Bush
has responded to the attacks by presenting himself as a true
conservative who has the ability to survive a long-haul presidential
race.
In
the video Bush's campaign released on Tuesday, Trump is also shown in a
2007 interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer in which he mentions Hillary
Clinton as someone "who
would do a good job" negotiating a deal with Iran. Later in the video,
Trump is shown in the same interview saying that he identifies more as a
Democrat.
The
video also shows Trump having warm words for the Clintons. He has
donated generous sums to the family's charitable foundation over the
years, in addition to Hillary
Clinton's Senate campaigns.
A
chyron on the screen notes that Trump was a registered Democratic voter
in 2001, though Trump has also defended his donations to Democratic
candidates in the past, remarking
that in New York, "everyone's Democratic."
In
a 2011 interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Trump mused: “So, what am
I going to do, contribute to Republicans? Am I going to contribute to, I
mean, one thing I’m
not stupid. Am I going to contribute to a Republican for my whole life
when they get, they run against some Democrat. And the most they can get
is one percent of the vote."
Bush's Twitter account shared the ad, tweeting, "Why are you a Republican@realDonaldTrump…The answer is, you’re not."
Within
a minute, Trump fired back with three tweets lambasting what he called a
"weak hit by a candidate with a failing campaign."
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