Flanked by friends, family and supporters, Republican state House candidate and Cheshire home invasion survivor William Petit condemned a digital ad funded by a union-based political action group that linked him with Donald Trump’s “attack on women and families.”

“I’m just flabbergasted and appalled that anyone would stoop this low,” Petit, who lost his wife and two daughters in the brutal 2007 attack that garnered national headlines, said at a news conference held in front of his Plainville home Wednesday morning.

The ad, paid for by Labor United for Connecticut, is one of several digital ads targeting about a dozen Republican legislative candidates across the state. Campaign finance filings show the group paid $2,112 for online ads against Petit.

Republicans and Democrats alike were quick to rebuke the ad and called for it to be pulled. The top Democrat in the House, Speaker Brendan Sharkey, said it was “horrific and moronic.” House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby, joined Petit at the press conference.