2026-10-20T19:38:54.871Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
俄亥俄州州长竞选因一段新视频引发震荡，视频中民主党候选人艾米·阿克顿与其断绝关系的母亲呼吁民众不要投票给她。
这段视频在社交媒体上被广泛传播，包括总统长子小唐纳德·特朗普也进行了转发，它揭开了阿克顿人生中一段痛苦的过往。阿克顿曾表示，自己自12岁左右起就与母亲断绝了联系，当时母亲再婚的丈夫曾对她实施虐待并面临刑事指控。
该视频引发了阿克顿的兄长和俄亥俄州民主党人的强烈谴责，而她的共和党竞争对手维韦克·拉马斯瓦米的竞选团队则表示，俄亥俄州民众“理应知晓”阿克顿的母亲对她的评价。该竞选团队并未透露自己是否参与制作了这则广告。
“她一辈子都在撒谎，”唐娜·阿瑟在这段时长一分钟的视频中说道，“我的女儿需要帮助，她连自己都照顾不好，又怎么能帮到你们。人是可以改变的，但首先得说实话，而我的女儿至今仍未做到这一点。”
这段视频于周一晚间由俄亥俄州政治博主D.J.伯恩斯首次发布，他的网名是“公鸡”。伯恩斯告诉CNN，他从一名选民处获得了这段视频，该选民是在参与一项民意调查时看到视频并录下来的。
周二上午，阿克顿的竞选团队发布了其兄长菲利普·斯特恩斯的声明，谴责这段视频，并将其与拉马斯瓦米联系起来。
“维韦克·拉马斯瓦米竟堕落到如此卑劣的地步，试图将艾米12岁时遭受生母丈夫性虐待的经历当作政治攻击点，这并不令人意外，”斯特恩斯说道，“在他被捕、艾米和我被剥夺监护权后，我们的生母直到那个强奸艾米的人去世后才与他离婚。”
该视频未附带政治广告标准的免责声明，未注明广告的出资方或授权方，政治广告追踪服务机构AdImpact也未在周二上午将其标记为该竞选活动中的付费广告。
拉马斯瓦米的竞选团队于周二下午发布声明，未回应是否对该广告负责。不过，拉马斯瓦米的发言人康妮·拉克的声明暗示选民应考虑阿克顿母亲的言论，并重复了对阿克顿的攻击，声称“我们知道艾米·阿克顿是一个惯于撒谎的人，她在诚信方面存在严重问题，民众在决定将州长一职托付给谁之前，理应了解这一点”。
该声明进一步指出，熟悉阿克顿的人——包括“她的亲生母亲”——“显然在警告俄亥俄州民众不要投票给她”。
“俄亥俄州民众理应知晓这一点，”拉克说道。
支持拉马斯瓦米的主要超级政治行动委员会V-PAC的一名官员表示，该委员会并未制作这段视频。CNN已尝试联系阿瑟，以了解更多关于这段视频制作背景的信息。
阿克顿本人在接受WOSU公共广播电台采访时作出回应。
“看到她（母亲）变成这样令人难受，更令人难以置信的是，我的对手（拉马斯瓦米）竟然利用这样一位显然精神状态不佳的年长人士，这完全符合他的行事风格，”阿克顿说道。
俄亥俄州联邦参议院民主党候选人谢罗德·布朗在X平台上表示，这段视频“令人作呕”，并要求他的对手、共和党参议员乔恩·赫斯特德对此予以谴责。民主党州长协会在一份声明中称，这段视频是拉马斯瓦米针对阿克顿发起的“ relentless 抹黑运动”的一部分。
阿克顿与拉马斯瓦米正在争夺美国竞争最激烈的州长选举之一，两人将接替任期届满的共和党州长迈克·德温。本次竞选的广告攻势尤其恶劣，这也引发了争议——阿克顿拒绝与拉马斯瓦米进行辩论。
阿克顿曾是俄亥俄州公共卫生主任，此前也曾谈及自己与母亲断绝关系以及艰难的童年。在2019年接受《扬斯敦卫报》采访时，她表示自己在9岁至12岁期间，母亲再婚的一名男子对她实施了虐待，该男子随后面临刑事指控。当时，她们一家住在扬斯敦郊外一个露营地的帐篷里。
“幸运的是，情况恶化到了一定程度，因为这让我逃离了那里，”阿克顿告诉《卫报》。
她表示，最后一次见到母亲是在法庭上，当时母亲试图亲吻她，她拒绝了。
CNN记者劳伦·福克斯对本文亦有贡献。
Ohio governor’s race roiled by new viral video featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother
2026-10-20T19:38:54.871Z / CNN
The Ohio governor’s race is being roiled by a new video in which the estranged mother of the Democratic nominee, Amy Acton, urges people not to vote for her.
The video – which was shared widely on social media, including by the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. – harks back to a painful chapter in Acton’s life. She has said she has not seen her mother since she was about 12 years old, when a man her mother married abused her and faced criminal charges.
It drew strong condemnations from Acton’s brother and Ohio Democrats, while the campaign of her Republican opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy, said Ohioans “deserve to know” what Acton’s mother says about her. The campaign did not say whether it was involved with the ad.
“She’s lied her entire life,” Donna Arthur says in the minute-long spot. “My daughter needs help, and she can’t help you if she needs help herself. People can change, but first they have to tell the truth, and my daughter still isn’t doing that.”
The video was first published on Monday night by an Ohio political blogger, D.J. Byrnes, who is known as “The Rooster.” Byrnes told CNN he obtained the video from a voter who saw it as part of a poll and recorded it.
On Tuesday morning, Acton’s campaign released a statement from her brother, Philip Stearns, denouncing the video and linking it to Ramaswamy.
“It’s not surprising that Vivek Ramaswamy has stooped to such a despicable low as to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at twelve years old from our birth mother’s husband into a political talking point,” Stearns said. “After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died.”
The video did not have the standard disclaimer that political ads carry saying who paid for or authorized them, nor did it show up Tuesday morning as a paid ad in the race on AdImpact, the political ad-tracking service.
Ramaswamy’s campaign issued a statement on Tuesday afternoon that did not address whether it was responsible for the ad. However, the statement from Ramaswamy spokesperson Connie Luck suggested voters should consider the message from Acton’s mother and repeated her attack, asserting that “we know that Amy Acton is a serial fabulist who has some serious problems with the truth that the public needs to be aware of before deciding who to entrust as governor.”
The statement went on to argue that people who know Acton well — including “her own mother” — “are clearly warning Ohioans not to vote for her.”
“Ohioans deserve to know that,” Luck said.
An official with V-PAC, the main super PAC backing Ramaswamy, said it did not make the video. CNN has attempted to contact Arthur for more information about how the video came together.
Acton herself weighed in during an interview with WOSU Public Media.
“It’s awful to see her this way, and it’s even more incredible to see that my opponent (Ramaswamy) has taken advantage of someone who’s clearly not well, who is older, and this is totally in line with who he is,” Acton said.
Sherrod Brown, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Ohio, said on X that the video was “disgusting” and that his opponent, GOP Sen. Jon Husted, should condemn it. The Democratic Governors Association said in a statement that the video was part of a “relentless smear campaign” that Ramaswamy has waged against Acton.
Acton and Ramaswamy are locked in one of the most competitive governor’s races in the country, vying to replace term-limited Republican Mike DeWine. The ads in the race have been especially nasty, fueling a controversial decision by Acton to decline to debate Ramaswamy.
Acton, the former Ohio public health director, has spoken before about her estrangement from her mother and hardscrabble childhood. In a 2019 interview with the Youngstown Vindicator, she said her mother married a man when she was between ages 9 and 12 who abused her and who faced criminal charges. The family was living in a tent at a campground outside Youngstown at the time.
“I was lucky that it got bad enough, because it got me out of there,” Acton told the Vindicator.
She said the last time she saw her mother was at the courthouse when she tried to give her a kiss and Acton rejected her.
CNN’s Lauren Fox contributed to this report.
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