Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Amy Acton has released a new ad in response to Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s advertisement, which stars Acton’s mother warning Ohio voters not to vote for her.
The rebuttal to Ramaswamy and Acton’s mother, Donna Arthur, features Acton’s brother claiming that the two were abused as children and accusing Ramaswamy of capitalizing on their woes.
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Tuesday, Donna Arthur came out swinging in a Vivek Ramaswamy campaign ad, slamming her daughter as a “liar” and a sick person who “needs help.”
“I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent — it’s not easy for a mother to say this, but Amy has a serious problem,” Arthur said, adding that “she lies about her past,” and “she’s lied her entire life.”
“Don’t vote for people who lie. Don’t let her become your governor. If you think she’ll make your life better, you’re fooling yourself. It will only get worse.”
Acton’s campaign responded yesterday morning with a statement from Acton’s brother, Philip Stearns, blasting Ramaswamy and claiming that her mother was complicit in alleged sexual abuse she faced from her stepfather as a child. They baselessly accused Ramaswamy of an “attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at twelve years old from our birth mother’s husband into a political talking point.”
Acton’s campaign also released a video ad on Tuesday evening, with Stearns again accusing Ramaswamy of turning alleged childhood abuse into a “talking point.” Notably, however, Ramaswamy’s ad made no mention of abuse and only featured comments from the woman who raised Acton and previously accused her of exaggerating or inventing stories about her childhood back in 2020.
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Stearns: I received a lot of abuse, but Amy always got the worst of it. She continued to receive that abuse because she knew she had to protect me from that, and that if she hadn’t done that, who knows where I would have ended up?
And she was 11 and 12 years old, and to think that that’s somehow a talking point, shame on Vivek. It’s the contempt he has for Amy. It’s the contempt he has for Ohio. He’s not fit to lead.
Ramaswamy responded to the controversy surrounding his ad during an interview on Tuesday, confirming that it came from his campaign but that Acton’s mother “was not compensated.”
He further slammed Acton for refusing to debate him and instead “spreading some defamatory, disparaging lies about me and my family.”
“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. She won’t debate me, she doesn’t allow cameras at her events, and I think her record of continuously, certainly during this campaign, I would say spreading some defamatory, disparaging lies about me and my family, that does deserve to be scrutinized,” Ramaswamy said.
“I’ve never met Amy Acton, which is a regret. I wish I’d met at least my opponent. I’ve also never met her mother. She was not compensated. I asked my team that question because we’ve got the question. She was not compensated.”
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Ramaswamy further shared a clip of Megyn Kelly on Tuesday, where Kelly highlighted Acton’s history of lies, including her “armed attack” hoax at a campaign event, her possible alcohol abuse around her own children, and COVID hysteria.
“@megynkelly exposes the truth about Amy Acton. It’s uncomfortable, but every voter in Ohio should watch every second of this,” Ramaswamy wrote:
@megynkelly exposes the truth about Amy Acton. It’s uncomfortable, but every voter in Ohio should watch every second of this. https://t.co/vUpWKGZQXk
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) October 20, 2026
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