“The ad couldn’t sound more ominous. As darkened images of quiet suburban neighborhoods roll on the screen, a woman’s voice delivers a scary message: ‘On every street, in every neighborhood, around every corner, sex offenders are living among us.’ And then comes the kicker: U.S. Rep. Tom Malinowski, a freshman Democrat from New Jersey in a swing district, ‘tried to make it easier for predators to hide in the shadows,’ the woman continues. ‘Malinowski worked as the top lobbyist for a radical group that opposed the National Sex Offender Registry.'”

“As attack ads go, this one — entitled ‘Shadow’ and released by the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee (NRCC) — would be considered extreme even by the usual standards of political mudslinging. There is no evidence that Malinowski, who before being elected to Congress in 2018 served for years as the Washington director of Human Rights Watch and later as assistant secretary of state for democracy and human rights, had ever done anything to protect sexual predators or lobbied against the sex offender registry. But to some, the harsh attack ad is part of a nationwide ‘QAnon strategy’ that the Republican campaign committee appears to be deploying to exploit the fears and paranoia fueled by the bizarre conspiracy cult convinced that the Democrats are working with ‘deep state’ sex traffickers and pedophiles to sabotage Donald Trump’s presidency” – Yahoo News.