Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign pulled its most recent ad after it was discovered that one of the actresses featured in it has also appeared in softcore porn films. The ad, which was only launched on Thursday, was pulled from YouTube by Thursday evening, according to BuzzFeed.
The 30-second ad, entitled "Conservatives Anonymous," uses a setting of a group therapy session in which conservative voters talk about being betrayed by Marco Rubio on immigration. "Maybe you should vote for more than just a pretty face next time," the woman, played by Amy Lindsay, tells another group member, according to The Daily Caller.
Cruz's campaign said that they were unaware of Lindsay's full filmography.
"The actress responded to an open casting call," Cruz communications director Rick Tyler told Politico. "She passed her audition and got the job. Unfortunately, she was not vetted by the casting company. Had the campaign known of her full filmography, we obviously would not have let her appear in the ad. The campaign is taking the ad down and will replace it with a different commercial."
Lindsay -- who identifies as Christian, conservative and Republican -- said that she thought she brought something good to Cruz's presidential efforts. "In a cool way, then hey, then it's not just some old, white Christian bigot that people want to say, 'It could be, maybe, a cool kind of open-minded woman like me,'" she said, BuzzFeed reported.
She later took to Twitter to express her disappointment.
Extremely disappointed the #TedCruz campaign pulled the national television spot I had a role in... #moretocome #myvotecounts
— Amy Lindsay (@amylindsayLA) February 12, 2016
Lindsay said that she had made everyone aware of her previous work, but she later backtracked on those claims. "I have clearly talked to the filmmakers and stuff and just to be clear, I assumed that they knew but none of the filmmakers or the casting director knew about my complete filmography in the past that you're talking about, so I was wrong in that statement," Lindsay said, according to The Hill.
