The Hill News

Ron Paul is expanding his ad buy in Iowa in hopes of making a late surge in the volatile first-in-the-nation nominating contest, going up on air Tuesday with a shortened version of an attack ad released last week critical of Newt Gingrich.

That ad joins an ad that refers to his Republican opponents for the presidential nomination as "little shih tzus" and plays up his plan to eliminate fives Cabinet-level agencies released Monday.

The latest ad uses Gingrich's own words to criticize his ties to troubled mortgage lender Freddie Mac and previously stated support for an individual mandate to purchase health insurance.

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