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Grieving families ambushed by GOP ads about loved ones' murders: 'I had a panic attack'

The Republican Party’s most powerful Senate super PAC has spent millions on attack ads describing real killings in graphic terms, and some of the victims’ families say no one warned them first. Robin Buonodono’s 5-year-old daughter, Nicole VanNoty, was raped and murdered in 1994, but she was blindsided recently by a TV advertisement about the crime, and…

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Republicans are spending millions on ads that recount heinous crimes. Victims’ families say they didn’t agree to itWhen Robin Buonodono saw the TV spot, she felt like she couldn’t breathe. The ad described the 1994 murder of her 5-year-old daughter, Nicole VanNoty. The story of the killing had been repurposed as a political attack ad without her knowledge by a Republican super PAC seeking to defeat Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

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Republicans are spending millions on ads that recount heinous crimes. Victims’ families say they didn’t agree to itWhen Robin Buonodono saw the TV spot, she felt like she couldn’t breathe. The ad described the 1994 murder of her 5-year-old daughter, Nicole VanNoty. The story of the killing had been repurposed as a political attack ad without her knowledge by a Republican super PAC seeking to defeat Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

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