(CNN) — Just hours before the third Republican debate, Jeb Bush’s campaign released a hard-hitting video against one of his rivals, but it’s not someone who will be on the stage Wednesday night.
The highly-produced video goes after Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, portraying her as a “third-term Obama,” with ominous music playing in the background.
Video of trash on the ground, homelessness and smoke in the air are just some of the images that are seen while juxtaposed with footage from Clinton in the Democratic debate.
The 1:45 minute video, “Failed Agenda,” shows a clip of Clinton giving Obama the letter grade of “A” and praising the executive action he’s taken on immigration, vowing, as she did in the debate, to go even “further” on the issue.
It also shows video of Clinton answering “the Republicans” when asked to name the enemy she is most proud of, followed by the image of a large electoral map that’s mostly colored in red districts.
CNN has reached out to the Clinton campaign for response to the video.
The second half of the video takes a more uplifting — though still dramatic — tone, focusing on Bush’s pledges at campaign events to “fix” Washington.
While Bush has slipped into the single digits in the polls and won’t hold a center spot at the debate, the video’s release signals his campaign’s strategy to stay focused on the general election and paint him as the candidate most electable and capable of facing the eventual Democratic nominee.
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