Bush super-PAC hits Trump on foreign policy

by Jesse Byrnes - 12/21/15 11:57 AM ET

The super-PAC supporting former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s White House bid released a new TV advertisement on Monday assailing Donald Trump on foreign policy.

The minute-long ad from Right to Rise includes clips of Bush from last week’s GOP debate knocking Trump for “getting his foreign policy experience from the shows.”

{mosads}”I don’t know if that’s Saturday morning or Sunday morning,” Bush says in a video clip included in the ad.

The super-PAC ad is virtually identical to a video released by the Bush campaign last week, including the same charge from Bush regarding Trump’s remarks on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Both videos have on-screen text in the opening moments labeling Trump “the chaos candidate” over the same image of Trump closing his eyes and seemingly yawning off Bush’s barbs.

Both ads then cut to Bush saying in the debate that “two months ago Donald Trump said that ISIS is not our fight,” with the videos using his remarks from a CNN interview in September saying “let ISIS and Syria fight.”

“He said that Hillary Clinton would be a great negotiator with Iran,” Bush says in the next clip. Both videos then cut to Trump saying that Clinton “has always surrounded herself with very good people.”

“And he gets his foreign policy experience from the shows,” Bush says in the next clip included in both videos, which cut to a Trump interview where NBC host Chuck Todd asked where he gets his military advice. “Well I watch the shows,” Trump responded.

Bush has been lagging behind several candidates, including Trump, in recent polls for the nomination as Republicans claw for position before ballots are cast in early-voting states starting in February.

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