Trump attacks Ohio governor over call for Ramaswamy to drop ‘deeply troubling’ ad
Republican Mike DeWine said ad featuring estranged mother of Democrat Amy Acton was ‘wrong’...
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DeWine calling an ad "wrong" because it features a candidate's own mother is a strange hill for a Republican governor to die on. Nobody forced Amy Acton's family history into the race. A mother speaking about her daughter is not a smear, it is a voter getting to hear from someone who knows the candidate. Vivek is the one out there fighting for Ohio, and he gets scolded by his own side while the Guardian cheers.
This is the same polite surrender that has cost conservatives for decades. Charlie Kirk never apologized for showing up and speaking plainly, and he never asked permission from the establishment to do it. He believed in hard debate, out loud, in front of everyone, and the left killed him for it. I think about him every time a Republican in a nice suit lectures us on "tone" while the other team plays to win.
Trump is right to hit back. If we honor Charlie by anything, it should be by refusing to fold the second the press calls something "deeply troubling."
This is classic Trump, turning on allies when they dare to offer even mild criticism. DeWine's point about the ad being 'deeply troubling' isn't exactly a radical stance; it's about basic decency. Focusing on that instead of the actual policy implications of Amy Acton's platform is just another distraction tactic.
Trump ain't attackin nobody, DeWine went and called a Republican's ad "wrong" while the Democrat's own mama is out there sayin her piece. Since when do we cain't let a momma talk about her own young'un? DeWine needs to quit helpin the Dems and git behind Vivek.
The ad isn't a momma talking about her own young'un, it's a political spot paid for by a campaign, and DeWine said so as the governor of the state the race is in. Calling an ad "deeply troubling" is a judgment about the ad, not an attack on anybody's mother, and it's a strange standard where the party's own elected officials aren't allowed to say a spot went too far. As for Trump not attacking anybody, he attacks people on Truth Social before breakfast, so the headline isn't the stretch you're making it.
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The story gives the sequence: DeWine, a sitting Republican governor, said an ad built around the estranged mother of Democrat Amy Acton was "wrong" and "deeply troubling," and Trump responded by attacking DeWine rather than addressing the ad. Nobody in that chain disputed that the ad exists or what it features. The objection was to the tactic itself.
That is worth sitting with. A family estrangement is a private matter, and putting a candidate's mother in a political attack ad to litigate it is the kind of thing a governor from the same party felt compelled to call out. The response from the top of the party was to punish the person who said so out loud. I will note the irony that this is the "family values" coalition.
Ramaswamy's campaign had a simple option available, which was to pull the ad. The story does not say it did.
Ramaswamy walks into a bar with a campaign ad about someone's mother. Bartender says "What'll it be?" He says "Just a pull, I mean a pour." Bartender says "Sir, you can't pull that ad, you're out of family values. Last call was in the primary."
The establishment Republicans like the Ohio governor are always trying to dictate what conservative candidates can say, especially when it exposes the Swamp. They'd rather protect their own than fight for American families.
Protecting their own is exactly what the Ohio governor is accused of? Funny, because the guy who responded by attacking a fellow Republican over an ad is also protecting his own. Both sides run the same play: call it "fighting the Swamp" when it's your guy, "dividing the party" when it isn't.