{"id":4214,"date":"2026-10-26T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=4214"},"modified":"2026-10-26T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:00:04","slug":"vivek-ramaswamys-ohio-gov-bid-in-chaos-as-allies-and-venues-drop-him-over-acton-attack-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=4214","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Ramaswamy\u2019s Ohio gov bid in chaos as allies and venues drop him over Acton attack ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vivek Ramaswamy&#8217;s campaign for Ohio governor appears to be stumbling to the finish line after a series of setbacks \u2014 including the loss of a major endorsement and venue cancellations \u2014 amid mounting fallout from the MAGA Republican&#8217;s controversial attack ad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 30-second ad, released last week, features Democratic candidate Dr. Amy Acton&#8217;s mother calling her daughter a &#8220;liar&#8221; and urging Ohio residents not to vote for her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The spot has drawn intense bipartisan backlash, with critics condemning the campaign&#8217;s use of Acton&#8217;s estranged mother, Donna Arthur. Acton has not spoken to Arthur in decades. Arthur lost custody of her children after her husband was indicted on a charge of raping Acton. He was never prosecuted on that charge before he died, after the couple fled the state.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-accent\/2 pb-5 md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<div class=\"py-2 text-center text-xs uppercase\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<div class=\"py-2 text-center text-xs uppercase\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div id=\"_r_bd_\" class=\"flex ad-container\">\n<div id=\"_r_bc_\" class=\"flex\" data-google-query-id=\"CMvUlJaT2JcDFfGCUAYdjK0Wgg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/22888152279\/us\/ynews\/ros\/dt\/us_ynews_ros_dt_mid_center_3__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/22888152279\/us\/ynews\/ros\/dt\/us_ynews_ros_dt_mid_center_3\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/7145487b260043be94306ec73c4ac5e1.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-45\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-google-container-id=\"11\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ramaswamy has defended the ad as &#8220;legitimate,&#8221; and President Donald Trump has rallied to his defense. The controversy comes as polls show a tight race with less than two weeks until Election Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Sunday, <em>The Plain Dealer<\/em>, Ohio&#8217;s largest newspaper, broke with its policy against endorsing candidates in major races to back Acton for governor.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rounded-lg\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/b5bf90f87aa819fea837d7862e34db73ed0ac79d0f4588403e81c18e59ab0de2\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefill_w960%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp\/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fthe_independent_635%2F06ea94a54bd00ab2010ff0646e433287.jpg\" alt=\"Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign has suffered last-minute setbacks amid mounting fallout from the MAGA Republican's controversial attack ad (Reuters)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><button class=\"group absolute bottom-0 hidden size-full md:block\" aria-label=\"View larger image\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\" data-rapid_p=\"13\" data-y-link-id=\"0v3h9lc170xxnh03irpm\"><\/button><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<div>\n<p>Vivek Ramaswamy&#8217;s campaign has suffered last-minute setbacks amid mounting fallout from the MAGA Republican&#8217;s controversial attack ad (Reuters)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Vivek Ramaswamy, seeking the highest office in this state, has produced a campaign advertisement that weaponizes the sexual abuse his opponent, Amy Acton, suffered as a child,&#8221; the paper&#8217;s editorial board wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There are moments when a community must decide what it stands for, when its institutions have a duty to speak and when silence itself becomes a statement,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-accent\/2 pb-5 md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<div class=\"py-2 text-center text-xs uppercase\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several Ohio venues have also scrapped plans to host Ramaswamy in recent days, according to <em>Newsweek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mb-4\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Friday, Old Dog Ale House &amp; Brewery in Delaware canceled an event scheduled to feature him. Elliot&#8217;s Wood Fired Kitchen in Newark also said it would not host his planned Tuesday appearance. The Ohio Republican Party has indicated it plans to reschedule both appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>The Independent<\/em> has contacted Ramaswamy&#8217;s campaign for comment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rounded-lg\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/546a1514ac8daa59ef96de06e00b8c288e61a8bf5be8e6fb303994b58f08727e\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefill_w960%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp\/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fthe_independent_635%2F516461096d6c1de45729fa60c70fe32a.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Amy Acton hugs former President Barack Obama during a campaign rally at Cleveland Public Auditorium on October 24 in Cleveland, Ohio (AP)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><button class=\"group absolute bottom-0 hidden size-full md:block\" aria-label=\"View larger image\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\" data-rapid_p=\"16\" data-y-link-id=\"13ukoz408p28500t1lgb\" data-v9y=\"1\"><\/button><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<div>\n<p>Dr. Amy Acton hugs former President Barack Obama during a campaign rally at Cleveland Public Auditorium on October 24 in Cleveland, Ohio (AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several Republicans, including Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, have denounced the ad and called for it to be taken down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who competed against Ramaswamy in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries and served as Trump&#8217;s ambassador to the UN in his first term, called him &#8220;a bad guy,&#8221; and added: &#8220;It&#8217;s a shame he continues to get away with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-accent\/2 pb-5 md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<div class=\"py-2 text-center text-xs uppercase\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Numerous Democrats, including Acton, have also forcefully condemned the ad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mb-4\">\n<div id=\"recirc-83bee22e-37e1-3402-8969-f7e98d505ce3\" class=\"mb-4\">\n<div class=\"grid gap-4 lg:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-rows-[auto_auto_1fr]\">\n<div class=\"relative w-full\">\n<div class=\"relative hidden md:flex\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"h-4 bg-tertiary w-2\/5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"_r_c9_\" class=\"absolute inset-0 rounded-[4px] focus-within:ring-2 focus-within:ring-link\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I won&#8217;t normalize somebody who has said that my childhood is just something I&#8217;m complaining about, who today just released an ad using my birth mother, who I was removed from at the age of 12 for severe abuse and neglect, and sexual abuse,&#8221; she told a local news outlet last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump, however, praised the video as &#8220;very powerful&#8221; in a Truth Social post on Tuesday, attacking both the media&#8217;s coverage and Republicans who opposed the ad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The Press, in a concerted and well coordinated attack, is trying to get Vivek Ramaswamy to &#8216;take down the Ad,'&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about a daughter in that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving in Office, let alone the Office of Governor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-accent\/2 pb-5 md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<div class=\"py-2 text-center text-xs uppercase\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ramaswamy has acknowledged that his campaign released the ad, which went viral on social media, and defended it as legitimate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It is an ad from our campaign, and the thing that I want to say is that I would love for this race and this election to be about the substantive issues that impact Ohioans, and unfortunately, Amy Acton has been hiding from those issues,&#8221; he told reporters last week. On Monday, he called Acton &#8220;crazy, unstable and dishonest.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivek Ramaswamy&#8217;s campaign for Ohio governor appears to be stumbling to the finish line after a series of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,113,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ohio","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4216,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions\/4216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}