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New ad omits Arthur’s claims that Acton is lying about her childhood. Legal docs and Acton’s brother support Acton’s account. So new ad stressing the claims that Acton lied is more in line w/ how Ramaswamy has talked about “lying”, not about the abuse Acton suffered.
Update: there is now a 30 second version of the Vivek Ramaswamy ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The 30-second version removes the mother's specific claim from the longer original ad that Acton lied about living in a tent as a child, which is contradicted by court records and other evidence supporting her account of childhood abuse and homelessness.
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1 PM view of Cleveland Public Hall awaiting the Amy Acton rally with former President Barack Obama
President Trump has come into office (and will be this week) for GOP candidates. Today, former Prez Obama is in CLE for Democratic candidates.
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Coffee, conversation, and a chance to connect with #OurCCS leadership! Grab your favorite brew and pull up a chair with Columbus Board of Education President Dr. Antoinette Miranda and Vice President Sarah Ingles on October 27. ☕ #LeadersGrownHere
ALT Promotional image for the Sip Social event with Columbus City Schools. Features President Dr. Antoinette Miranda and Vice President Sarah Ingles. Event details: Tuesday, October 27, 9-11 a.m., at The Roosevelt Coffeehouse at Gravity Park, 462 W. Broad St.
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Note: The ad with Democratic candidate for governor Amy Acton's mother - who claims her daughter is "lying" about her past while court records from 1978 show her husband was charged with felony rape of Acton when she was 12 - is 60 seconds.
FLASH: The Vivek Ramaswamy campaign has instructed some TV stations to switch to all 30-second spots starting tonight
Stations are working to confirm with the Ramaswamy campaign
#OHGov
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Vivek Ramaswamy is holding an event for the Ohio GOP ticket at a private home in Circleville, OH tonight
The neighbors are Amy Acton supporters
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Ohio GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has taken the stage in a pizza parlor north of Columbus after a handoff from his running mate Rob McColley.
They are on their first day of a statewide bus tour.
Alex Triantifilou, head of ORP, says he is excited to be here. Introduces some of the local candidates on the ballot.
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I know no one is talking about this anymore, but Ohio gas prices are back above the national average
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Day three in Ohio for @dcexaminer and this is the Democratic welcome to the start of the Ohio Republican Party bus tour with the likes of @VivekGRamaswamy and @JonHusted in Strongville.
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“Team Vivek” slate card paid for by Strongsville GOP club, which Ramaswamy is addressing this morning on an Ohio Republican Party bus tour.
Rep. Max Miller made the cut.
The Ohio GOP kicked off its bus tour this morning. My photographer, @stateofohioshow, and I will catch up with the bus on the second leg of the tour today when it comes to Delaware County, so stay tuned if you are interested.
Hello from Reynoldsburg, where I’m with Gov. Mike DeWine. The president insulted him repeatedly yesterday.
My political team partner @KosichJohn is in Strongsville where the Ohio GOP is kicking off its bus tour. Protestors are outside the event.
@WEWS @WCPO @OhioCapJournal
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ICYMI: Libertarian candidate calls on Ramaswamy to withdraw from race for Ohio governor wvxu.org/2026-10-22/libertar… - via @joingles
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Follow up: Vivek Ramaswamy's spokesperson confirms ads will stay up, and offered this in a written statement: "We refuse to accept the media’s double standards when Democrats have regularly used family members of President Trump, RFK Jr, and other Republicans in ads."
Gov. Mike DeWine says the ad from Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy featuring Democratic opponent Amy Acton's estranged mother is “wrong” and “deeply troubling”, but his endorsement of Ramaswamy and the rest of the GOP ticket stands statenews.org/government-pol…
2026 race for Ohio governor: the candidates have different prescriptions for health care statenews.org/government-pol…
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.@cspan has had a multimedia journalist posted in Ohio for months, and he’s been following the two marquee races. Great video from campaign visits featuring Sherrod Brown, Jon Husted, Vivek Ramaswamy and, in this example, Amy Acton:
Gov. candidate @amyactonoh (D-OH) calls Vivek Ramaswamy's (R-OH) ad the "big elephant in the room" and says that she remembers the people that "didn't look the other way" during her childhood and that the ad should not have "exploited" her mother, who she says is "not well."