Midterm attack ads turn family tragedies into political ammunition
Georgia, Ohio and North Carolina races feature ads aired over grieving families' objections
A new Axios report on Monday details how campaigns in the 2026 midterms are using other people's family tragedies as political ammunition, sometimes over the objections of the families themselves. The ads include images of murdered children and a mother's 911 call, a mother attacking her estranged daughter, and grieving relatives whose accounts are disputed.