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The ad is titled “Clinton/Nixon,” an apparent nod to the famous "Frost/Nixon" interview from which some of its images are taken. GOP super PAC: Clinton is the new Nixon

NEW YORK — Big-money Republican super PAC American Crossroads is rolling out a new ad that explicitly links Hillary Clinton to Richard Nixon.

Having determined Clinton’s trustworthiness is her foremost weakness, the Karl Rove-founded group is tying Clinton directly to the scandal-plagued former president in the days before New York voters head to the polls on Tuesday. The ad looks to further sour Bernie Sanders’ backers and undecided voters on Clinton, hoping to dent the front-runner's lead in a primary that has become increasingly tense as Sanders scrambles to close a double-digit poll deficit.

The 30-second video spot, which is set to run through next Tuesday’s primary, opens with dramatic music and a grainy closeup of Nixon answering the House Judiciary Committee subpoena of his recordings in April 1974. “What I have stated from the beginning to be the truth, has been the truth,” says Nixon before the ad cuts to a close-up of Clinton, sitting for an interview in 2015.

“I want people to understand what the truth is,” she says, referring to her email arrangement at the State Department.

The ad then careens back and forth between a series of intercut clips of Nixon and Clinton, interspersed with headlines from this election cycle that feature both of their names. The spot finishes with Nixon intoning, “I’m sorry, I just hope I haven’t let you down,” as viewers see images of him waving in front of Marine One before the helicopter left the White House for the last time. It then cuts to Clinton saying, “I’m sorry about that, I take responsibility” while it shows her waving in front of a plane, before “#NEVERHILLARY” is stamped across the screen.

“It’s eerie how similar they are — the compulsive references to trust, the emphatic denials,” said Crossroads President and CEO Steven Law, pointing to Clinton’s work on the panel looking into Nixon’s impeachment in 1974. “It’s as if Hillary studied the Nixon model while on the Watergate committee and then decided to replicate it."

The ad is titled “Clinton/Nixon,” an apparent nod to the famous “Frost/Nixon” interview from which some of its images are taken.

Part of a five-figure digital buy in New York, it is the second ad in the PAC’s “#NeverHillary” push, an effort to knock the former secretary of state at a time when most Republicans and well-funded conservative groups are primarily focused on their own party’s internecine nomination war involving Donald Trump.

Many Democrats have been surprised that more GOP groups haven’t already spent millions against Clinton this election cycle, and Crossroads has started taking up the role of trying to remind fellow Republicans that Clinton is likely to be their opponent come November.