Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. We’re less than two weeks out from the midterm vote and the campaigns are getting even more nasty. Condemnation continues of Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign in the Ohio governor race after his team put out an attack ad, featuring the estranged mother of his Democrat rival Amy Acton criticising her daughter and calling her a liar.
Acton’s campaign has called it a despicable ad after putting out the clarification that Acton was sexually abused by her stepfather and removed from her mother’s custody at age 12. Ramaswamy’s team however has dug in behind the ad, and were backed by Veep JD Vance yesterday who condemned Republican criticism. He said Ramaswamy “had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is”.
However South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace joined the chorus of Republican critics saying: This ad is going to go down as the most shameful, disgusting, offensive ad this election season. I just can’t believe that this is what passes for decency in this election.
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