The fiscally conservative group Club for Growth is going on the airwaves in Iowa to attack Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness MORE (I-Vt.), who is running at the top of the polls a week before the state’s caucuses.
Conservative groups generally don’t spend a lot of money in contested Democratic primaries. But with Sanders gaining momentum, Club for Growth will go on the air with a new television ad this week to attack him as “too old and too liberal.” The 30-second ad will run in Des Moines through Feb. 2.
“Bernie Sanders wants to be our 46th president but he’s nothing like the rest,” the narrator in the ad states. “More radical than Obama on health care. Bernie’s plan gives government health insurance to everyone. His socialist Green New Deal? Even bigger than the New Deal, transforming the economy to meet extreme environmental standards. And at 79, he’d be our oldest president ever. Even his age is extreme. Too old and too liberal.”
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Sanders has led in three of the past four major polls of Iowa and opened up a 9-point lead in the latest Emerson University survey of the Hawkeye State.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE and his allies have taken notice and have recently stepped up their attacks against Sanders.
“With Bernie Sanders rising in the polls, the potential for a radical socialist as the Democratic nominee has never been more real,” said David McIntosh, the president of Club for Growth’s political arm.