It appears the Ted Cruz campaign is treating a recent online attack ad as a mistake. The ad featured a former softcore pornography actress. Upon campaign staffers learning that, they removed the video from YouTube.
"Conservatives Anonymous" still has a website, but the video for the Cruz ad doesn't play. Actress and producer Amy Lindsay, who had a speaking part in the ad, was apparently given the job accidentally due to a lack of "vetting by the casting company," said Cruz communications director Rick Tyler in a statement to Politico.
(Watch the ad for yourself in the player above.)
Lindsay, however, is "disappointed" with the decision to pull the ad, she said on Twitter Friday. Further, she wanted it to be clear that she doesn't have any particular loyalty to Ted Cruz -- and that she is actually considering placing her support with Donald Trump.
Lindsay told BuzzFeed she's a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, and emphasized that the party should be trying to reach open-minded, "cool" people (like herself) that deviate from the stereotypical conservative.
Cruz's campaign team didn't see it that way, it seems.
Extremely disappointed the #TedCruz campaign pulled the national television spot I had a role in... #moretocome #myvotecounts
— Amy Lindsay (@amylindsayLA) February 12, 2016
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