Businessman Wil Cardon (R) is up with an ad ripping Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) for his immigration record, a soft spot for the front-runner in the GOP Senate primary.
"Career politician Jeff Flake has led the fight in Congress for a liberal approach on illegal immigration. Flake supports amnesty for illegal immigrants. Flake wrote a bill to give lower in-state tuition for illegal immigrants," the ad's narrator says. "Flake joined Barack Obama in criticizing S.B. 1070 – Arizona’s immigration law. Flake's liberal position on illegal immigration is the same as Obama's."
Flake backs comprehensive immigration reform but also supported the controversial Arizona immigration law when it passed in 2010.
The ad is the harshest yet from Cardon, who has been spending heavily from his own pockets to attack Flake in the race. This ad has more than $250,000 behind it, according to a Democratic ad tracker.
Flake's campaign shot back, defending Flake's record and attacking Cardon for using doctored photos in the ad.
"Jeff Flake is one of the most known conservative reformers in Congress," Andrew Wilder, the campaign's communications director, wrote in a memo to reporters.
"Cardon gets around inconvenient facts like this by Photoshopping President Obama into a photo of Flake at a Republican Study Committee press conference."
