The Lincoln Project, a conservative political action committee (PAC) working to defeat President Donald Trump in 2020, released a new ad Sunday thrashing the president over the turnout at his weekend rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. George Conway, husband of Kellyanne Conway, serves as an “advisor” to the PAC.

In the ad, a narrator mocks President Trump over the crowd size at the BOK Center on Saturday, which ended up being below the arena’s capacity. “Hey Donald—your campaign manager told you that 1,000,000 fans wanted to come to your first big rally. Turnout in Tulsa? A dud,” the narrator says. “You’ve probably heard this before, but it was smaller than we expected.”

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There were reports during the rally that attendance may have been stifled by an online prank. Social media posters claimed that they requested tickets for the Tulsa rally as a way to gobble up all of the available seats at the Saturday Bank of Oklahoma arena rally. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted her support Saturday night for the alleged prank, responding to a Trump supporter that the president was “ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign” with fake reservations. She hailed “K-Pop allies,” saying, “We see and appreciate your contributions in the fight for justice, too.” She concluded with a “shout-out to Zoomers. Y’all make me so proud.”

But other observers blamed intense media warnings about large gatherings amid the pandemic, a Tulsa curfew threat (later lifted) that might have stopped travelers, and the threat of violence from counter-protestors as reasons attendance was down. They argued that the reservations requested was merely a data-gathering tool and that no rally seating is reserved or checked. Trump Campaign Manager Brad Parscale tweeted the following:

The Lincoln Project didn’t hesitate to capitalize on the situation when they released their caustic ad Sunday. PAC advisor George Conway appeared to continue efforts to perpetuate the narrative espoused by AOC when he tweeted a link to an article on “how to apply for tickets” to an upcoming “Students for Trump” rally in Phoenix.

It’s no secret that top presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway and her husband don’t see eye to eye on the president. George Conway has frequently (and publicly) shown blatant disrespect toward his wife, her career, and everything she has worked so hard to achieve. But it’s more than a little disconcerting that the spouse of a counselor to the president is aligning himself with the likes of leftist radical Ocasio-Cortez now. At this point, one could argue we are venturing into “election meddling” territory with his latest antics.