2026-10-22T13:56:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
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更新于：2026年10月22日 / 美国东部时间下午3:39 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
俄亥俄州共和党州长迈克·德温周四表示，将接替他的共和党候选人维韦克·拉马斯瓦米应撤下一则广告，广告中民主党对手艾米·阿克顿分居的母亲称她是骗子。
德温的此番言论发表于副总统JD·万斯呼吁共和党人“停止抱怨”这则广告的次日。
“投放这则广告是错误的，”德温对记者表示，“我敦促拉马斯瓦米的竞选团队撤下该广告。”
即将卸任（因任期限制）的德温称这则广告“从表面上看就非常、非常令人不安”，但他补充道，当了解到有关虐待和忽视的指控背景后，“这会让广告显得更加错误”。
德温拒绝透露是否已与拉马斯瓦米的竞选团队沟通过，但表示他不会收回对拉马斯瓦米的支持。
针对德温的言论，拉马斯瓦米竞选团队发言人康妮·拉克为该广告进行了辩护，坚称“在这场竞选里，第一个也是唯一一个攻击对手母亲的人是艾米·阿克顿”。
“阿克顿的母亲是在公开指责她明显的撒谎模式——而非虐待——相关报道理应如实呈现这一点，而不是只采用阿克顿竞选团队的片面说辞，”拉克说道。
这则广告最初于周一晚间在社交媒体上流传，来源不明，直到周二拉马斯瓦米才证实“这是我们竞选团队投放的广告”。
广告中，阿克顿的母亲唐娜·阿瑟表示：“作为母亲，说出这番话并不容易，但艾米一直是个大麻烦。她是个骗子，她在自己的过往经历上撒谎。” 阿瑟的丈夫曾被指控在阿克顿孩童时期强奸她。
根据竞选团队提供的文件，1978年，阿瑟的丈夫被控在阿克顿10至12岁时强奸她。他提出了无罪抗辩，并在保释期间逃离了当地，案件最终未进入审判程序。
阿克顿曾在疫情期间担任德温政府的州公共卫生专员，她此前曾讲述过自己遭受已故继父虐待的经历。
自继父被捕后的一次庭审日期后，阿克顿就与母亲断绝了联系。法庭记录还显示，当时这家人曾住在帐篷里，而阿瑟在广告中对此予以否认。
拉马斯瓦米周二为该广告内容辩护称：“所有最了解她的人……都已告知选民不要投票给她，而是投给我。”
阿克顿周四在接受美国有线电视新闻网采访时表示，她原本希望拉马斯瓦米“不会堕落到这种地步，但他确实做到了”。
她说，一些共和党人“没有勇气”站出来批评这则她认为越过了“此前任何行为都未曾触及的底线”的广告。
但曾以参议员身份代表俄亥俄州、并于周三在该州开展竞选活动的万斯态度截然不同，他对记者表示：“广告是否恰当其实并非我关心的问题。”
“政治本就是残酷的游戏，”万斯说道，“我要对同为共和党当选官员的同僚们说，如果你们真的相信自己口中信奉的理念，那就别再抱怨一则广告，而是在13天后的选举中赢下比赛。”
德温并非唯一公开反对这则广告的共和党人。正与民主党人谢罗德·布朗展开激烈连任竞选的俄亥俄州参议员乔恩·赫斯特德周三在给美联社的一份声明中表示，他不会投放这样的广告。
前共和党众议员吉姆·雷纳奇在社交媒体上发帖称：“任何不与这则广告划清界限的共和党人，都有可能陷入同样的舆论漩涡。”
周三被问及这则广告时，特朗普总统表示：“我对此一无所知。”他补充道：“一位母亲如此憎恨自己的女儿，这种情况非常罕见，但我认为这与维韦克无关。”
曾在2020年共和党总统初选中遭到拉马斯瓦伊个人及家庭攻击的前美国驻联合国大使妮基·黑利，在社交媒体上回应这则广告时表示，她“终于看到了我们当时就想告诉所有人的事实：他是个坏人。遗憾的是他至今仍能逍遥法外”。
Ramaswamy should drop ad featuring Acton’s mom, GOP governor says, as Vance accuses critics of “whining”
2026-10-22T13:56:00-0400 / CBS News
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Updated on: October 22, 2026 / 3:39 PM EDT / CBS News
Ohio’s GOP Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday that Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee to replace him, should take down an ad that features Democratic opponent Amy Acton’s estranged mother calling her a liar.
DeWine’s comments come one day after Vice President JD Vance told Republicans to “stop whining” about the ad.
“It’s wrong to run this ad,” DeWine told reporters. “I would urge Ramaswamy’s campaign to take this down.”
DeWine, who is term-limited, called the ad “on its face, deeply, deeply troubling” but said when one knows the backstory of allegations of abuse and neglect, “it makes it even more wrong.”
DeWine refused to say if he had spoken with the Ramaswamy campaign, but said he was not rescinding his endorsement of Ramaswamy.
In response to DeWine’s comments, Ramaswamy campaign spokesperson Connie Luck doubled down in defense of the ad, saying “the first and only candidate to attack the mother of her opponent in this race was Amy Acton.”
“Acton’s mother is speaking out about her clear pattern of lying — not abuse — and it should be covered as such, not just with the Acton campaign spin,” Luck said.
The ad first circulated Monday night on social media with unclear origins, before Ramaswamy confirmed Tuesday it was “an ad from our campaign.”
In it, Acton’s mother, Donna Arthur, whose husband was accused of raping Acton when she was a child, says, “It’s not easy for a mother to say this, but Amy was a serious problem. She is a liar; she lies about her past.”
Acton, who served as the state’s public health commissioner under DeWine during the pandemic, has previously talked about being abused by her now-deceased stepfather. According to documents provided by the campaign, in 1978, Arthur’s husband was charged with raping Acton, when she was between 10 and 12 years old. He entered a not guilty plea and left the area while out on bond; the case never went to trial.
Acton has not been in touch with her mother since a court date after her stepfather was arrested. The court records also show that the family lived in a tent, which Arthur disputed in the ad.
Ramaswamy on Tuesday defended the content of the ad, saying, “Every person who appears to know her the best … have told voters not to vote for her but to vote for me instead.”
Acton said Thursday on CNN that she had hoped Ramaswamy “wouldn’t sink this low, but of course he did.”
She said some Republicans “just don’t have the courage” to speak out about an ad she said crossed “everyone’s boundary that has ever been done before.”
But Vance, who represented Ohio in the Senate before becoming vice president and was campaigning in the state on Wednesday, had a different reaction, telling reporters that “whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern.”
“Politics is a tough business,” Vance said. “And my message to my fellow elected Republicans is, if you actually believe in the things you say you believe in, stop whining about an advertisement and go win the race in 13 days.”
DeWine is not the only Republican to speak out against the ad. Ohio Sen. Jon Husted, who is in a tough reelection battle against Democrat Sherrod Brown, said Wednesday in a statement to The Associated Press that he would not have run it.
Former Republican Rep. Jim Renacci posted on social media that “any Republican who fails to distance themselves from this ad risks taking on water as well.”
When asked about the ad on Wednesday, President Trump said, “I know nothing about it.” He added, “It’s a very unusual situation to have a mother hate a daughter that much, but I don’t think that has anything to do with Vivek.”
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who was subjected to personal and family attacks by Ramasway in the 2020 GOP presidential primary campaign, responded to the ad in a social media post saying that she’s “just seeing what we tried to tell everyone back then. He’s a bad guy. It’s a shame he continues to get away with it.”
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