On the first day of early voting in North Carolina, the Senate race got a little more crowded. For the first time, Democrat Deborah Ross launched a TV ad that tied incumbent Republican Sen. Richard M. Burr to Donald Trump.

Facing a barrage of attacks over her past criticism of a sex offender registry, Ross is trying to use the Republican presidential nominee to undercut the GOP’s main attack against her.

“Richard Burr puts politics ahead of us. He’s exploiting victims of sexual assault to falsely attack Deborah Ross,” the narrator says in the ad, shared first with Roll Call, that hits some TV stations Thursday night before launching statewide Friday.

“But Burr has taken a post as a top adviser to Donald Trump,” the narrator continues. Hours before the revelation of a 2005 “Access Hollywood” recording in which Trump bragged about groping and kissing women, Burr was announced as a member of Trump’s national security advisory council.

The ad goes on to play clips of the 2005 video, then cuts to footage of Burr saying he still supports the GOP nominee.