South Carolina TV stations pulled an anti-Rubio political ad that supported Ted Cruz on Saturday over legal concerns.
"We had our legal folks review it, and it was decided that this needed to be pulled and substituted," Randy Ingram, the general manager of WBTW in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,
told The New York Times.
He said the decision was made Friday and the ad was pulled the next day. He added that other stations in the Media General umbrella also pulled the ad.
"I'm not sure why legal decides we run something different,"
Ingram added, according to CNN.
It's not clear what exactly the legal objection to the ad is.
The ad, titled "Sanctuary," was created by a so-called super PAC, Stand for Truth, which has backed Ted Cruz.
In it, grainy footage of border-crossers is shown alongside clips of Marco Rubio. The ad says Rubio supported the creation of sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants.
Eric Lycan, an attorney for Stand for Truth, said the complaint about the ad likely came from the Rubio camp.
"The Rubio campaign convinced one station that his Gang of Eight amnesty bill, which turned a blind eye to sanctuary cities and allowed them to continue to flout the law, is somehow different from actively supporting them," Lycan said. "This was a Friday afternoon ploy to keep South Carolina voters from hearing the message about Rubio's disastrous record on border security."
"The Sanctuary ad aired statewide on both television and digital in Iowa with no objection, receiving hundreds of thousands of views on digital," he added. "The ad has continued to air across the Palmetto State, and will resume on the station in question."
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