President Trump’s “corruption” is the focus of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) new presidential TV ad in Iowa released Monday.
“Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history,” Sanders says in the new 30-second spot, before delving into a broader focus on rooting out a system of corruption in America.
“But the greed and corruption undermining our democracy is bigger than one man, and so is the solution,” the new “Belongs to Us” ad continues. “When we stand together, we will make billionaires pay their fair share, provide better wages for workers and equal pay for women. We will expand Social Security and guarantee health care for all.”{mosads}
The ad release comes a week after The New York Times reported the Sanders campaign will spend $30 million on TV ads in the first four primary and caucus states of 2020 and California.
Last week the campaign also launched a $1 million ad buy in New Hampshire.
Sanders campaigned in Iowa over the weekend with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the firebrand freshman representative who endorsed the senator’s 2020 campaign. The rallies drew the largest crowds of any rally in the state of this election cycle, according to Sanders’s campaign.
A RealClearPolitics average of polls has Sanders in third, behind former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in the race for the nomination
A survey from Quinnipiac University Poll released last week had Sanders, Biden, Warren and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg in a statistical tie.