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Seventy-six percent of the estimated 9,200 political attack ads that ran over the past seven days took aim at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a new study says. A coalition of conservatives committed to stopping Trump blanketed the nation with 7,000 TV ads over the last week directly attacking him, according to figures published Tuesday by the Center of Public Integrity (CPI). About 40 percent of the anti-Trump ads were concentrated in Florida, a March 15 winner-take-all state where Trump currently leads in the polls. If Trump wins the Sunshine State, it would likely knock Marco Rubio out of the race while moving the businessman 99 delegates closer to the 1,237 he needs to win the nomination. Read More |