Ramaswamy takes responsibility for attack ad featuring Acton’s estranged mother
The campaign says the $4 million ad is aimed at persuadable voters in a tight governor’s race despite bipartisan backlash.
- On Tuesday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign confirmed it produced a controversial attack ad featuring Democratic nominee Amy Acton's estranged mother and is spending $4 million to promote it statewide.
- Long-Standing estrangement between the two stems from 1978, when Acton and her brother were removed from custody after their stepfather, Cledith Arthur, was arrested and indicted for raping Acton, then 12 years old.
- In the minute-long video, Donna Arthur calls her daughter "a liar" regarding childhood abuse claims, while Ramaswamy spokesperson Connie Luck described Acton as "a serial fabulist" with "problems with the truth."
- Philip Stearns, Acton's brother, condemned the "disgusting attack" as an "attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at 12 years old... into a political talking point," sparking fierce bipartisan condemnation.
- The race, now rated a "toss up" by the Cook Political Report, faces backlash as critics warn the ad could backfire rather than damage Acton's standing with voters.
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The Ohio gubernatorial election in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections on November 3 is turning into the worst mudslinging campaign, with even the biological mother, who was disowned due to a sexual assault scandal, being mobilized to attack her daughter in advertisements. Even Republicans are expressing criticism and concern as the Republican side aired ads mobilizing the Democratic candidate's mother to urge people not to support her daughter.
The advertisement staged the biological mother of the democrat Amy Acton who urged not to vote for her daughter, who was the victim of alleged rape in her childhood.
Vivek Ramaswamy, Republican candidate for the office of Ohio Governor, is under the fire of critics on Wednesday in the United States for the broadcast of an advertisement in which the mother of her democratic opponent, Amy Acton, accuses her daughter of lies.
Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican candidate for the office of governor of Ohio, is under the fire of critics on Wednesday for the broadcast of an advertisement in which the mother of her democratic opponent, Amy Acton, accuses her daughter of lies.
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