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Marco Rubio's attack ad on Donald Trump focused on Trump's past contributions to Charlie Crist. | AP Photo Rubio campaign hits back after Trump attack ad

Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign punched back at a new attack ad from Donald Trump styling the Florida senator as corrupt.

The Rubio campaign, in a statement, pointed to past contributions Trump made to Charlie Crist, the former Republican-turned-Independent-turned-Democrat who Rubio defeated in his Senate race.

"First, Donald Trump gave big bucks to Charlie Crist in 2010 and now he's recycling the same false and negative attacks about Marco. Charlie Crist's and Donald Trump's con didn't fool Floridians in 2010 and it won't fool them now. These attacks didn't even stop Trump himself from saying Mitt Romney should pick Marco as his vice president just two years later," Rubio spokesman Joe Pounder said in a statement on Monday.

The 60-second attack ad, released by Trump's campaign on Monday, features a narrator saying "corrupt Marco Rubio has spent years defrauding the people of Florida."

"He used the Republican Party's credit card to pave his driveway and live it up in Las Vegas. When he got caught he said he had used the wrong credit card. But he had used the same Republican Party card for six flights between Miami and Tallahassee," the narrator said, before going on to say, "On top of it all Rubio's been a total no-show in the U.S. Senate with the worst voting record of all."

"Marco Rubio: another corrupt, all-talk, no-action politician," the narrator then spits out contemptuously.