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Donald Trump and Jeb Bush are taking their war to the next level
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Jeb Bush's presidential campaign torched the former Florida governor's Republican rival Donald Trump in a new campaign ad released Tuesday.
Bush's attack ad purports to reveal the "real" Trump and features a series of clips from years-old interviews in which the real-estate mogul describes more liberal beliefs than he now holds.
"I'm very pro-choice," Trump says in one clip.
"You'd be shocked if I said that, in many cases, I probably identify more as a Democrat," he says in another.
The ad comes as Bush and Trump have been increasingly sparring on the campaign trail. Trump, who has dominated in the polls since entering the race, frequently pillories Bush as a "low-energy person" and released his own sharply negative ad on Monday that blasted Bush's softer tone on illegal immigration.
Bush responded on Monday by questioning Trump's immigration record, while his campaign touted the former governor's record on combating crime.
"Who's the real @realDonaldTrump? He donated to sanctuary city supporting @NancyPelosi and called her 'The Greatest,'" Bush wrote on Twitter.
Bush's ad is similar to one launched a couple of weeks ago by another Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. Both ads noted that Trump had showered praise on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, and that he once supported a single-payer healthcare system.
At the time, Trump dismissed the criticism as "old stuff" while blasting Paul.
"Rand Paul is doing so poorly in the polls he has to revert to old footage of me discussing positions I no longer hold," he said. "Unless you are a piece of unyielding granite, over the years positions evolve as they have in my case. Ronald Reagan, as an example, was a Democrat with a liberal bent who became a conservative Republican."
Trump even trashed Paul's golf game in his lengthy statement responding to the ad.
"Recently, Rand Paul called me and asked me to play golf," he said. "I easily beat him on the golf course and will even more easily beat him now, in the world in the politics."
Trump's campaign declined to comment Tuesday morning to Business Insider but the candidate himself unsurprisingly blasted Bush on Twitter:
Jeb is spending millions of dollars on “hit” ads funded by lobbyists & special interests. Bad system.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2015
Yet another weak hit by a candidate with a failing campaign. Will Jeb sink as low in the polls as the others who have gone after me?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2015
View Bush's ad below:
Updated (12:08 p.m.): With Trump's response.
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