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Democrat Tom Perriello’s first TV ad in the Virginia governor’s race opens with a throwback to his strongest supporter during his single term in Congress: then-President Barack Obama.

“Tom went to Washington to take on the insurance companies and the credit card companies and the Wall Street banks,” Obama says in footage from a 2010 campaign rally in Charlottesville. “That’s what Tom Perriello is about.”

The ad, which the Perriello campaign described as a “statewide six-figure buy” that will begin airing this week, makes no mention of President Donald Trump, a contrast with the first round of ads put out by Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, Perriello’s opponent in the June 13 Democratic primary.

In his first TV ad, Northam said “we’re not going to let Donald Trump take us backwards.” In a second round of ads unveiled this week, Northam calls Trump a “narcissistic maniac,” repeating a line he’s deployed often on the primary campaign trail.