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Live in Norwalk? GOP is targeting you with anti-Clinton ads

Jennifer Jacobs
jejacobs@dmreg.com
Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton speaks to a group of Central Iowa small business owners on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at Capital City Fruit Company in Norwalk. This is the second day of Clinton's visit to Iowa.

Iowans who live in the Norwalk area began seeing negative advertising about Hillary Clinton pop up in their Facebook feeds and Google searches Tuesday night.

GOP operatives are targeting Iowans who live in the town Clinton is campaigning in Wednesday morning.

Clinton appears at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday at a small business in Norwalk, Capital City Fruit. She'll do an invitation-only roundtable there on the economy and other issues.

The digital ads will be the first expenditure by the conservative America Rising PAC against Clinton of the 2016 cycle, the PAC's executive director, Colin Reed, told The Des Moines Register on Wednesday.

The ads will appear only to people in Norwalk either Googling or looking up Youtube videos or reading Facebook.

America Rising launched a web video called "Trustworthy?" on Tuesday, and has decided to put some money behind it, Reed said.

Reed argues that the video content is important for Iowans because it's information about Clinton "that otherwise isn't being discussed amid all the positive headlines of her rollout," he said.

The video criticizes Clinton's foreign policy decision and tells Iowans they can't trust her.

"Right now, Hillary Clinton is running as the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party," Reed said. "And while Republican candidates are in the process of sorting out their primary process, it's the mission of America Rising to make sure that voters know all about the reasons not to support Hillary Clinton."

All the ads will direct Iowans back to an America Rising site: https://www.americarisingpac.org/cant-trust-hillary/

Reed said: "This is one of the benefits of the rise of online technology – campaigns or, in our case a Super PAC, can very specifically target communities with a tailored message and not have to worry about expending resources on uninterested audiences. That's something you can't do with TV ads, where you have to purchase per media market."

Here's the script for "Trustworthy?"

HILLARY CLINTON: You know, our Constitution is being shredded. We know about the secret White House email accounts

ANNOUNCER: Secretary Clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server

CLINTON: I'm proud of the work we've done to elevate diplomacy and development

ANNOUNCER: Our allies don't trust us. Our enemies don't fear us.

ANNOUNCER: The death of an American ambassador...

ANNOUNCER: Three members of a U.S. security team on the ground in Benghazi

CLINTON: What difference at this point does it make?

ANNOUNCER: The Senate Intelligence Committee review found the attack was preventable. The report blamed the State Department for not increasing security in Benghazi

ANNOUNCER: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- they wanted to reset relations with Russia and with Putin

ANNOUNCER: And how'd that go?

ANNOUNCER: How's that working out?

ANNOUNCER: Not really working out well

ANNOUNCER: The Russian military now being directly involved in fighting Ukrainian government forces

CLINTON: Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria have said they believe he's a reformer

CLINTON: I remember landing under sniper fire. There was no greeting ceremony. And we basically were told to run to our cars. Now that is what happened.

ANNOUNCER: There was no sniper fire

CLINTON: I misspoke. It was totally -- I totally misspoke.

CLINTON: We came out of the White House, not only dead broke, but in debt.

ANNOUNCER: Looking at the book advance she had as she was leaving the White House, $8 million plus

CLINTON: You know what? Rich people -- God bless us.

ANNOUNCER: Quinnipiac University found Hillary Clinton's lead is dwindling against Republican candidates

ANNOUNCER: A new poll out this morning shows former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton losing ground

ANNOUNCER: is losing ground in key states including Iowa

ANNOUNCER: Are you saying America should blindly trust her judgment?

JAMES CARVILLE: There's one set of rules for the Clintons. … Do you remember Whitewater? Do you remember Filegate? You remember Travelgate? Do you remember Pardongate? Do you remember Benghazi?

ANNOUNCER: Less than half say Hillary Clinton is honest and trustworthy

CLINTON: I think I'm probably the most transparent person in public life