CRUZ skirts PAC rules with coached family video outtakes for later "independent" ads

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http://gawker.com/watch-the-most-deeply-uncomfortable-moments-of-the-ted-1746198836
[font size=5]Watch the Most Deeply Uncomfortable Moments of the Ted Cruz Family Outtake Videos
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Thanks to the (few) rules governing campaign Super PACs, candidates aren’t technically allowed to coordinate with them. Which means candidates can’t technically feed them hours and hours of raw video footage for future campaign ads. Candidates can however, casually leave them on a neglected YouTube account for Super PACs to find. And thank god they can, because Ted Cruz did.

CNN uncovered the 16 hour-long videos on an old YouTube account belonging to Cruz’s Senate campaign, to which the videos were quietly uploaded about four months ago.

The footage is, to put it lightly, deeply painful to watch. Long periods of coaching and silence are followed by clearly scripted word of praise for dear Ted. Hugs are repeated.

We’ve compiled the best worst bits of raw Cruz we could find. We’re sorry.

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1. The Daily Show bit last night was hilarious. nt

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2. "raw CRUZ" sounds like "raw sewage" n/t

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3. Watch the rerun of Thursdays The Daily Show if you can

Trevor Noah hit him hard with his segment on Cruz. It has him telling his family to basically fake it for the cameras.

Noah even started a contest for viewers to put multiple clips together and send them in. They are available at the Daily Show website.