Vice President JD Vance told Republicans to “stop whining” about Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s controversial ad featuring his Democratic opponent Amy Acton’s estranged mother.“Politics is a tough business, and my message to my fellow elected Republicans is if you actually believe in the things you say you believe in, stop whining about an advertisement and go win the race in 13 days,” Vance told reporters on Wednesday in Cincinnati.The Ohio Republican’s ad targeting his Acton exploded across the political landscape on Tuesday, sparking criticism from both sides of the aisle in the final stretch of the battleground gubernatorial race.Ramaswamy’s ad features Acton’s estranged mother calling her daughter a “liar” and urging Ohioans not to vote for her.
Acton previously recounted being sexually abused by her mother’s husband as a child, and Acton’s brother said on Tuesday that their “birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died.”Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton recounted being sexually abused by her mother's husband as a child.Jon Cherry / Getty Acton previously said in a 2019 interview with The Youngstown Vindicator that she had not seen her mother since a hearing in the 1978 court case against Acton’s stepfather.Conservative commentator Meghan McCain said on X that the ad was “dastardly” and “never should have been created.” An aide for Sen.
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