Maryland Senate candidate former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) released two campaign ads Thursday focused on reproductive rights that feature his three daughters and four granddaughters.
“When Larry Hogan married my mom, he became a father to three strong, independent women, and he gained our trust,” Jaymi Sterling, Hogan’s daughter, says in one of the new ads . “Now, once again, they’re attacking him as antiwomen.”
Hogan’s youngest daughter Julie Kim says her dad “supports choice by restoring Roe in every state.”
The women say as a grandfather to four granddaughters, “we know you can trust him too.”
The second ad is titled “Girl Dad,” and highlights Hogan’s record protecting contraceptive access and equal pay as governor.
“As governor, he kept his promise to protect women’s rights, not only on equal pay, contraception and also who he appointed to senior staff in his Cabinet and judges,” Sterling says in the ad.
The ads come as EMILY’s List, a group backing Democratic women who support abortion rights, said it would spend $2.2 million in the Maryland Senate race, NBC News reported . Attack ads funded by the group are set to take aim at Hogan’s stance on abortion.