'Disgusting' Senate GOP ad slammed for 'out of bounds' mix-up in the Carolinas

The Senate Leadership Fund, a GOP super PAC, is out with a brutal ad attacking North Carolina Senate candidate Roy Cooper — but they mixed up the Carolinas in their attack.

The ad featured Logan Federico, a 22-year-old woman who was brutally murdered, and tied this killing to Cooper's decision to "release 3,500 North Carolina prisoners" as governor. Cooper's "reckless policies and decision to release 3,500 violent criminals put every family in North Carolina at risk. Stephen’s daughter Logan was a casualty of an agenda," posted the SLF X account.

There's only one problem: all of this happened in South Carolina.

"Republicans are trying to score political points from a tragedy," wrote Senate Majority PAC, the Democratic Party's counterpart to the SLF. "Logan Federico was murdered in South Carolina. Her killer was released from a South Carolina jail after racking up charges in South Carolina. This has nothing to do with Roy Cooper or North Carolina."

"Bizarre: the @WhatleyNC campaign is now blaming Roy Cooper for a murder committed in... South Carolina, where he has never been Governor," wrote Carolina Forward. "The man who murdered Logan Federico, Alexander Dickey, was released from a South Carolina jail, and had numerous previous charges — again, in South Carolina. The whole crime literally has no connection to North Carolina whatsoever, except that Federico (the victim) happens to have been born in Waxhaw."

"This may be the most egregious ad of the cycle," wrote John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who has worked with Cooper. "This criminal lived and committed crimes, including this one, in South Carolina, not North Carolina. So the GOP makes an ad to try and deceive NC voters into believing that @RoyCooperNC is somehow responsible for this man's slain daughter, whose killer committed this and all his crimes in South Carolina. Beyond out of bounds and disgusting."