2759 - Trump Defends Vivek Ad; Blue Tide or Blue Tsunami? Talarico Closes Strong w/ Krystal Ball

So Trump is being forced to respond to Vivek Ramaswamy's disgusting ad about his opponent, Amy Acton, in the gubernatorial race in Ohio.

Judd Legum of Popular Info dug into this story and the details, just trigger warning, are as disgusting as you would imagine.

Popular Info And I think this is great that Judd included this in his piece, pointing out that the contributions from the PACs that funded this ad include these corporations, Bank of America, Deloitte, DraftKings, Kroger and Nationwide.

So those are companies that are complicit.

in an ad that featured the estranged mother of amy acton who she had to be separated from by the state along with her nine-year-old brother when she was 12 and her brother was nine because of systemic abuse in the household which included 12 year old amy alleging that her stepfather raped her and her mother believing the stepfather over her kid What was also revealed is that this stepfather had a previous allegation.

His own daughter had accused him of rape before this, which the mother was aware of because she did an interview in 2020 addressing the fact that her partner was accused of rape by a daughter from her previous marriage.

And she thought that that was also false.

So having that information, she chose to believe her romantic partner over her daughter when he had already been charged with incest in 1974 for raping his eldest daughter.

With that in mind, here's Amy Acton at a campaign event.

A voter comes up to her and hugs her here in a touching moment, just kind of explaining what the past few days have been like.

Vivek Ramaswamy doubled down after the backlash to this ad.

Axios reported two days ago that he spent $4 million more to air it.

Here's Amy Acton.

My heart goes out to you.

Can I give you a

hug?

When I heard it yesterday, that's all I wanted to do was cry and hug you and tell you it would be okay.

Thank

you.

Thank you.

What was your reaction and when did you

actually see this ad on Monday night? Thank you, Lauren.

It was sent to me by my running mate who saw it post first.

And my reaction was, you know, I'd hoped he wouldn't sink this low, but of course he did.

We had known that, as I shared before, my mother has not been seen by me since I was 12 years old.