Dimmock’s candidacy, though, is getting a boost from a newly formed super PAC with connections to McCarthy allies that has spent more $3 million in the race so far — including on brutal ads that highlight the misconduct allegations against Gaetz.

“Your daughters are never safe with the real Matt Gaetz,” a narrator says in one ad from the Florida Patriots PAC, referencing the allegations against him, and showing Gaetz’s mug shot from a 2008 DUI arrest. Charges from that incident were later dropped.