Republicans are showing Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham no love on Valentine's Day.

A group with ties to the Republican Governors Association launched a six-figure ad buy Monday portraying Lujan Grisham, a Democrat seeking a second four-year term, as soft on crime.

"New Mexico faces a crime crisis," the narrator says at the beginning of the 30-second ad, which is running in the Albuquerque media market, as well as digitally.

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