Trump pulls Cruz ad, puts up positive spot

Ted Cruz is out with a new web ad mocking Trump’s big-mouthed style, portraying him as an action figure with kids laughing as they mock his past liberal stances.

Cruz’s spot centers on Trump’s attempted use of eminent domain in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the 1990s.

The child playing with the doll then mimics Trump and brings up claims that he had previously donated to Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Anthony Weiner.

It also shows footage of Coking saying about Trump, “Heart?”

Trump, it said, “bankrolled politicians to steamroll the little guy, a pattern of sleaze stretching back decades”.

CNN has reached out to Trump’s campaign for response.

Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, has defended eminent domain as necessary for public projects. “Why would we want them in a president?” the ad closes. In South Carolina, a Senate committee Tuesday approved a bill stating that eminent domain could not be used by private companies that are not defined as a ‘public utility.’ The bill is seen as a way to stop a company, Kinder Morgan, from buying out state property owners to build an oil pipeline. You need eminent domain.

After Cruz won Iowa and Trump came in first place in New Hampshire this week, both candidates are now hoping to notch their second victory in the South Carolina GOP primary on February 20. Polls from mid-January found Trump with comfortable double-digit leads.

Earlier on Thursday, Trump accused the “Cruz people” of conducting “push polls” on the candidate.