Ad Wars

Republicans Take Their Sanders Advocacy to the Next Level

Why is a Republican billionaire's super-PAC running ads that could help Sanders in the Democratic primary?
Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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Add Republican operatives to the list of strong Bernie Sanders supporters in the Democratic primary, along with progressive activists and young voters.

A super-PAC founded by Republican billionaire Joe Ricketts is making its first foray into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, spending $600,000 on a television ad in Iowa calling Sanders "too liberal," according to the New York Times.