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Vivek Ramaswamy’s Amy Acton ad makes a false – and sickening – argument | Moira Donegan
Republican attacks on the candidate for governor are contradictory and hinge on a warped understanding of sexual abuse I’ve heard people say that the Ramaswamy team must have been scared. Last week, the campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy, the tech billionaire and onetime Republican presidential candidate who is currently the Republican nominee to be the governor of Ohio, ran an ad featuring the long-estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, the physician and former public health official Amy Acton. Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

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Republican attacks on the candidate for governor are contradictory and hinge on a warped understanding of sexual abuse I’ve heard people say that the Ramaswamy team must have been scared. Last week, the campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy, the tech billionaire and onetime Republican presidential candidate who is currently the Republican nominee to be the governor of Ohio, ran an ad featuring the long-estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, the physician and former public health official Amy Acton. Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Vivek Ramaswamy’s Amy Acton ad makes a false – and sickening – argument | Moira Donegan, Republican attacks on the candidate for governor are contradictory and hinge on a warped understanding of sexual abuse I’ve heard people say that the Ramaswamy team must have been scared. Last week, the campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy, the tech billionaire and onetime Republican presidential candidate who is currently the Republican nominee to be the governor of Ohio, ran an ad featuring the long-estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, the physician and former public health official Amy Acton. Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading…
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