共和党州长候选人维韦克·拉马斯瓦米的竞选团队将不再播放一则争议广告，该广告中民主党人艾米·阿克顿的疏远母亲称其女儿是“说谎者”且“需要帮助”。在该广告内容遭到共和党和民主党人士一周多的谴责后，拉马斯瓦米告诉《哥伦布分派报》，该电视广告截至10月29日已“播放完毕”。
Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign will no longer air a controversial ad that features Democrat Amy Acton’s estranged mother saying her daughter is a “liar” and “needs help.”After more than a week of rebukes from both Republicans and Democrats over the content of the ad, Ramaswamy told The Columbus Dispatch that the broadcast spot “ran to completion” as of Oct. 29.
截至周四，拉马斯瓦米的竞选团队已花费约100万美元播放该广告，尽管该广告原计划作为400万美元预订的一部分一直播放到选举日，这是根据AdImpact的数据。
As of Thursday, Ramaswamy’s campaign had spent about $1 million to air the , though it was originally slated to run through Election Day as part of a $4 million reservation, according to AdImpact data.
阿克顿指控她已故的继父克莱迪斯·阿瑟在她童年时性侵她。随后失去阿克顿监护权并与已故丈夫共同生活多年的唐娜·阿瑟在广告中指责阿克顿对其过去撒谎。
Acton has accused her now-deceased stepfather, Cledith Arthur, of sexually abusing her as a child. Donna Arthur, who subsequently lost custody of Acton and stayed with her late husband for years, accuses Acton of lying about her past in the ad.
“别投给说谎的人，”阿瑟说。“别让她成为你们的州长。”该广告引发了来自拉马斯瓦米同党俄亥俄州政客的一片谴责：即将卸任的州长迈克·德温敦促拉马斯瓦米撤下该广告，称其“可鄙”且“极其、极其令人不安”，参议员乔恩·赫斯塔德也与该广告划清界限。
“Don’t vote for people who lie,” Arthur says. “Don’t let her become your governor.”The spot conjured a wave of condemnation from Ohio politicians hailing from Ramaswamy’s own party: Outgoing Gov. Mike DeWine urged Ramaswamy to take it down, calling it “despicable” and “deeply, deeply troubling,” and Sen. Jon Husted also distanced himself from the commercial.
但上周，总统唐纳德·特朗普为这位共和党有力候选人辩护，在真理社交的一篇帖子中问道：“谁不会用这样的广告？我会用，这叫‘捡到宝’。”副总统JD·万斯也同样告诉他的党员们“对这个广告别再抱怨了”。
But President Donald Trump came to the Republican hopeful’s defense last week, asking in a Truth Social post: “Who wouldn’t use such an ad? I would, it’s called, ‘hitting pay dirt.’”Vice President JD Vance similarly told his party members to “stop whining” about the spot.
阿克顿竞选团队发言人艾迪·布洛克称拉马斯瓦米是一个“脱离群众、只顾自身利益的亿万富翁”，他会伤害任何人以“得到他想要的东西”。“维韦克·拉马斯瓦米根本就不该一开始就播放他那可鄙的广告，他以最懦弱的方式将其撤下，这完全不足为奇，甚至连对阿克顿博士、她的家人或俄亥俄州人民都没有一丝道歉，”布洛克周四在一份声明中说。
Addie Bullock, a spokesperson for Acton’s campaign, called Ramaswamy an “out-of-touch, self-serving billionaire” who will harm anyone to “get what he wants.”“Vivek Ramaswamy should never have run his despicable ad in the first place, and it’s totally unsurprising that he took it off the air in the most cowardly way possible, without even the hint of an apology to Dr. Acton, her family, or to the people of Ohio,” Bullock said in a statement Thursday.