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A new Ted Cruz ad released Thursday depicts Hillary Clinton in her apparent war room. New Cruz ad has fake Clinton aides fret over her chances against him

The Ted Cruz campaign is out with a new attack ad imagining Hillary Clinton and her inner circle sizing up her Republican competition and fretting over how they will ever stop Cruz.

The ad is set in what appears to be Clinton’s war room, where her inner circle — fictional Huma Abedin, John Podesta and Robby Mook — discuss Donald Trump’s high disapproval ratings and penchant for inflammatory comments. “The point is, if Trump becomes the Republican nominee, the White House is yours," the staffers tell a fake Clinton.

But things get dramatic when fake Abedin asks, “What do you mean ‘if ....'" Then dramatic music plays as Clinton is passed a folder with a picture of Cruz inside.

The rest of the ad shows Clinton and her staff shaken by the prospect of a general election matchup between the Democratic front-runner and Cruz.

"How do we stop Ted Cruz?" the fake Abedin desperately asks.

"I don't think we can," another campaign aide says helplessly.

Though Cruz's fictional Clinton campaign is worried about facing him in the general election, a recent NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll shows Clinton beating Cruz 46 percent to 44 percent.