2026-10-23T08:00:15.151Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/23/politics/trump-ramaswamy-acton-ad
唐纳德·特朗普总统数月来一直在削弱自己所在政党的力量，即便在大多数总统会收敛言行的总统选举日前，他仍在不断给共和党人制造更多难题。
那么为什么在这些选举前夕，他会停止这种行为呢？
特朗普的最新举动是试图胁迫共和党人接受一则极具争议的政治广告，该广告试图利用一起涉嫌儿童性骚扰案件制造舆论。从道德和政治角度来看，这则广告显然已让许多共和党官员十分反感。
广告反馈
俄亥俄州州长候选人维韦克·拉马斯瓦米的这则广告，播出了他的民主党对手艾米·阿克顿关系疏远的母亲指责阿克顿是骗子的画面。阿克顿此前曾表示，她自12岁母亲失去对子女的监护权、且其母亲的丈夫因涉嫌性骚扰阿克顿被起诉后，就再也没有见过母亲。
特朗普不仅在周四为这则广告辩护，还敦促自己所在政党接纳这则广告，并向共和党人施压要求他们保持一致。当晚在爱荷华州的一场竞选集会上，他甚至告诉在场民众，拉马斯瓦米曾致电询问是否需要撤下这则广告，而他给这位总统的建议是必须保留广告。
特朗普回忆自己对拉马斯瓦米说：“抬头看看，就会感激上帝，真的非常感谢。我很感激。”
当天早些时候，特朗普在社交媒体上发文，称赞这位母亲有“勇气”站出来反对自己的女儿。他还批评了反对这则广告的共和党人、俄亥俄州州长迈克·德瓦恩，称其“对共和党不忠”。
即便有记者指出他的共和党同僚对一起涉嫌儿童性骚扰案件的担忧，特朗普仍固执己见。
他两次表示自己对阿克顿和母亲之间的背景故事“一无所知”，但他辩称无论如何都必须认真对待这位母亲的说法。
特朗普说：“哪怕这话有一半是真的，你也不想让她当州长。”
抛开他显然愿意无视可信虐待指控的事实不谈，这里还有一些极具讽刺意味的现象。
首先，如果一位母亲指责自己的孩子是骗子本身就会导致其丧失资格，那么对特朗普任命的国防部长皮特·赫格思来说这可不是什么好消息。据《纽约时报》报道，赫格思的母亲2018年给他发过一封邮件，称他“贬低他人、撒谎、作弊、滥交，还利用女性来满足自己的权力和虚荣心”。
（赫格思的母亲后来否认了这些说法，并在他的确认听证会上为儿子辩护。）
此外，阿克顿的母亲实质上是在指责她一贯撒谎——包括对自己的政治对手和成长经历撒谎。对特朗普来说，这实在是五十步笑百步。
但即便抛开这一点不谈，这也是一个极具争议的政治策略。俄亥俄州州长一职固然重要，但它是否重要到要冒着玷污共和党整体品牌、引发党内纷争的风险，而此时距离选举还不到两周？
其他共和党人并非只是袖手旁观，这一争议还蔓延到了俄亥俄州之外。在特朗普发表上述言论的同一天下午，我们获悉爱荷华州共和党参议员候选人阿什利·欣金森众议员成为最新一位呼吁撤下这则广告的共和党人。她告诉美国广播公司新闻，让阿克顿“重温创伤”“绝对太糟糕了”。
俄亥俄州的乔恩·赫斯特德参议员和其他共和党人站出来反对这则广告、并担心这会对自己造成影响是一回事；而俄亥俄州之外的关键共和党候选人公开批评这则广告，则是另一回事。
而且即便这则广告不会给共和党带来反噬，这样做又能获得多少好处呢？这个风险值得冒吗？
上一次中期选举候选人亲属发布如此恶毒的广告，还是2018年亚利桑那州共和党众议员保罗·戈萨尔的六个兄弟姐妹集体谴责他的广告。他在2016年以71%的选票当选，2018年得票率降至68%——这小幅转变可能是因为共和党整体环境恶化，而非那则广告导致的。
即便只是那样的小幅转变，对最近几项优质民调中落后约五个百分点的拉马斯瓦米来说也可能不够。而且值得重申的是：戈萨尔的那则广告并未涉及可信的虐待指控。
特朗普本质上是在要求他的政党接纳一件其显然非常不愿接纳的事，只是为了帮助一位可能因此受益、也可能不会受益的候选人。他的言论毫不掩饰这就是如今共和党秉持的理念，他还让盟友们隐忍接受。
显然，特朗普对这则广告的道德层面毫无顾虑。这或许并不奇怪，毕竟他对爱泼斯坦相关文件的争议毫不在意，甚至多次考虑为被定罪的儿童性贩加埃莱恩·麦克斯韦提供赦免。称赞阿克顿母亲的“勇气”，完全符合他一贯的所作所为。
目前还很难判断俄亥俄州民众或美国公众对这则广告的看法，但特朗普多次证明，他强迫自己的政党接受绝大多数人不喜欢的事毫无压力。这其中包括他的关税政策、对伊朗的战争、由纳税人资助的政治广告，以及他对通胀和经济的乐观言论——即便这些政策显然早已失效，他仍在坚持。
他凭直觉和冲动行事，即便这些做法近期已多次让他的政党遭遇政治挫败。如今他要求他的政党再吞下一件令人反感的事，而这件事可能会拖累关键候选人，而此时距离选举日还不到两周。
Trump turns the GOP’s Ramaswamy ad headache into a migraine
2026-10-23T08:00:15.151Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/23/politics/trump-ramaswamy-acton-ad
President Donald Trump has been undermining his own party for months, continuously causing more headaches for Republicans even long after most presidents would’ve taken the Election Day cue to rein themselves in.
So why would that stop on the eve of those elections?
Trump’s latest move is trying to bully Republicans into embracing a highly controversial political ad that seeks to weaponize a situation involving alleged child sexual abuse. The ad has clearly rubbed many GOP officeholders the wrong way, from both a moral and a political perspective.
Ad Feedback
The ad from Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy features the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, calling Acton a liar. Acton has previously said she hasn’t seen her mother since she was 12 years old, when her mother lost custody of her children and the man she married was indicted for allegedly sexually abusing Acton.
Trump not only defended the ad on Thursday, but he also urged his party to own it and put pressure on Republicans to fall in line. During an Iowa rally that night, he even told the crowd that Ramaswamy had called him asking for advice on whether to take it down, and the president told him he needed to leave the ad up.
“Look upstairs and say thank you, God, very much. I appreciate it,” Trump recalled saying to Ramaswamy.
In a social media post earlier in the day, Trump praised the mother for having the “courage” to speak out against her daughter. And he attacked one of the Republicans who has criticized the ad, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, as “disloyal to the Republican Party.”
Trump doubled down even when reporters noted his fellow Republicans’ concern about a situation involving alleged child sex abuse.
He said twice that he knew “nothing about” the backstory between Acton and her mother, but he argued that the mother had to be taken “seriously” regardless.
“Even if it’s a little bit true, you don’t want her as governor,” Trump said.
Looking beyond the fact that he’s clearly willing to dismiss credible abuse allegations, there are some real ironies here.
First, if a mother calling her child a liar is inherently disqualifying, that would be bad news for the man Trump made Defense secretary: Pete Hegseth. Hegseth’s mother wrote him an email in 2018 saying he “belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego,” according to a New York Times report.
(Hegseth’s mother disowned those sentiments and defended her son during his confirmation process.)
Also, Acton’s mother essentially accuses her of being an inveterate liar — including about her political opponent and her upbringing. For Trump, that is really casting stones from a glass house.
But even setting that aside, it’s a highly questionable political tactic. The Ohio governorship is important, but is it critical enough to risk tarnishing the party’s brand more broadly and causing an intra-party feud less than two weeks before an election?
Other Republicans aren’t just standing down here, and it’s permeating outside Ohio. The same afternoon that Trump made these comments, we learned the Iowa GOP Senate candidate Rep. Ashley Hinson became the latest Republican to call for the ad to be taken down. She told ABC News it was “absolutely terrible” for Acton to have “to relive that trauma.”
It’s one thing for Sen. Jon Husted and other Ohio Republicans to speak out against the ad and worry about what it could mean for them; it’s another for a key GOP candidate from outside Ohio’s borders to openly criticize it.
And even if the ad doesn’t blow back on the GOP, is there much to be gained here? Is it worth the risk?
The last time we saw an ad this brutal from family members of a midterm candidate was a 2018 ad featuring Arizona GOP Rep. Paul Gosar’s six siblings all denouncing him. He went from 71% of the vote in 2016 to 68% in 2018 — a small shift likely spurred by a worse environment for the GOP rather than the ad.
Even that kind of shift might not be enough for Ramaswamy, who trails by around five points in the average of recent quality polling. And it’s worth restating: the Gosar ad didn’t involve credible abuse allegations.
Trump is essentially asking his party to own something that it’s clearly very uncomfortable owning, just to help one candidate who might or might not benefit from it. His comments make no bones about this being who the Republican Party is these days, and he’s telling his allies to just grin and bear it.
Trump clearly doesn’t share the qualms about the morality of the ad. And maybe that shouldn’t be surprising from a guy who didn’t seem to get the fuss about the Epstein files and even repeatedly floated a pardon for convicted child sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Praising the “courage” of Acton’s mother is very much in line with all that.
It’s too early to see credible polling on what Ohioans or Americans think of the ad yet, but Trump has repeatedly shown that he has no problem with forcing his party to deal with overwhelmingly unpopular things. That includes his tariffs, the Iran war, his taxpayer-funded political ads and his happy talk about inflation and the economy, which Trump has stuck with long after it clearly wasn’t working.
He goes with his gut and his impulse, even when those things have repeatedly failed his party politically of late. Now he’s asking his party to swallow something else unsavory that could drag down key candidates, less than two weeks before Election Day.
发表回复