Club for Growth Action

"Math"- Indiana version +

0:30 TV ad run in IN announced April 21, 2016.

[Music]

Male Announcer:  If you don't want Donald Trump to win, your choice comes down to this.

Math.

Only Ted Cruz can beat Donald Trump.

John Kasich can't do it.  The math won't work.

A vote for Kasich actually helps Trump by dividing the opposition.

It's time to put differences aside.

To stop Trump, vote for Cruz.

Club for Growth Action is responsible for the content of this advertising.


Notes:  At a glance the Indiana version looks the same as the Wisconsin version from March 24.  However there are a few differences.  This ad is from Club for Growth Action rather than Club for Growth.  Also, the graph ihas been revised in a couple of ways.  First, the numbers are updated (it is now 845, 559 and 147 insted of 739, 465 and 143).  Second, in the new Indiana version, the graphic does not add the Kasich delegates to Cruz's but leaves them to the side.  This suggests that Club for Growth has gotten the idea that Kasich is not going to join forces with Cruz.  The graph is still deceptive in that the scale is way off, making it appear that Cruz's delegate total is closer to Trump's than it actually is.

  
Indiana version

  
Wisconsin version

Here is the April 21 press release

Club for Growth Action Targets Indiana for Anti-Trump Ad Buy
"There is now no state more important than Indiana for electing Cruz and keeping Trump from reaching 1,237.”

Washington, DC – Club for Growth Action, a political arm of the Club for Growth, released the following statement about a new ad buy that is starting tomorrow in Indiana:

“Indiana is facing a unique moment in history: the opportunity to stop Donald Trump,” said Club for Growth Action president David McIntosh. “After success with our ads in Wisconsin, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Utah, CFG Action is about to blanket the Hoosier State with a simple message: To stop Trump, vote Cruz. There is now no state more important than Indiana for electing Cruz and keeping Trump from reaching 1,237.

“With his responses to every new issue Donald Trump demonstrates that he is really a hardcore liberal. The polls show that he would be beaten badly in November, and the fallout would spread to House and Senate races, and ultimately the Supreme Court. Hoosiers who want a genuine conservative, pro-growth president should back Ted Cruz.”

CFG Action’s ad can be seen here and will begin broadcasting on statewide television in Indiana on April 22, with an ad buy of about $1.5 million.