Liberal group seeks to tie Bush to Trump

The policy arm of the liberal super-PAC American Bridge launched a paid social media campaign on Thursday with the aim of tying Jeb Bush to Donald Trump on issues ranging from abortion to campaign tactics.

{mosads}American Bridge has landed the URL http://www.JebTrump.com, which redirects users to a quiz meant to show “the zero inches of space between Jeb Bush and Donald Trump.” 

The quiz is a play on an ad campaign the Bush team launched a day earlier, which similarly included a quiz meant to highlight Trump’s past support for liberal causes.

The website launch is the first in a series of products American Bridge will launch with the intent of tying the two Republicans to one another. 

A spokesman for the group declined to say how much money was behind the new ad campaign, but described it as a “classy buy.”

The quiz asks users if they would rather a support a candidate who said ” ‘give me a better word’ than ‘anchor babies’ to describe U.S. citizens” or one who said ” ‘give me a different term’ than ‘anchor babies’ to describe U.S. citizens.”

Another asks if users would prefer a candidate who mocked his opponent for being “low energy,” or one who mocked his opponent for being a “germophobe when it comes to shaking hands.”

Trump has repeatedly needled Bush as being lethargic on the campaign trail, and the Bush team returned the personal attack in its quiz this week, which sought to highlight Trump’s aversion to physical contact with strangers.

The American Bridge quiz also seeks to tie Bush to Trump over their positions on Planned Parenthood, ObamaCare, climate change and “federal protections for LGBT Americans.”

“Jeb Bush has been throwing punches at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump for quite a while now — all of them missing the mark,” the quiz says. “He’s now trying to draw some quizzically-presented distinctions between himself and The Donald — and he’s missing on that, too. So we’re helping him out with a little correction.”

Democrats are gleeful over the rise of Trump and the chaos he’s inflicted on the race for the Republican presidential nomination, believing that his style and rhetoric will pull the rest of the field to the right and severely damage the GOP heading into 2016.