Trump Defends Ramaswamy’s Ad Targeting 60-Year-Old Amy Acton as Ohio GOP Rift Deepens
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Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Oct 29
Trump Defends Ramaswamy’s Ad Targeting 60-Year-Old Amy Acton as Ohio GOP Rift Deepens
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Oct 29
Summary
At an Ohio rally, Donald Trump said Vivek Ramaswamy was treated “very unfairly” for airing an attack ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother urging voters not to back her.
The ad omits that Acton, 60, has not spoken to her mother for 48 years after her mother rejected Acton’s claim that she was raped by her stepfather at age 12.
Trump framed the spot as legitimate campaign material, said he had advised Ramaswamy to keep running it, and attacked Republican critics including Governor Mike DeWine as disloyal.
Ramaswamy avoided discussing the ad directly at the rally, even as the backlash has brought heckling, canceled venues and criticism from within his own party.
Acton called the ad “unacceptable,” said her mother had been exploited, and cast the dispute as a test of decency for Ohio voters ahead of next week’s election.