Alarm bells as Ramaswamy running mate admits 'truly horrifying' fact about 'despicable' ad

Vivek Ramaswamy’s running mate has said out loud what critics of the campaign’s most notorious ad have been pointing out all week. The campaign believes Amy Acton’s account of the abuse she suffered as a child.Ohio state Sen. Rob McColley, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, spoke to The New York Times at a pumpkin festival in Circleville on Friday night. He said the campaign doesn’t think Acton, the Democratic nominee for governor, lied about her childhood.“Oh no, that is horrible,” McColley said. “We are accusing her of lying in her adult career.”The ad features Acton’s estranged mother, Donna Arthur, calling her daughter a liar and urging Ohioans not to vote for her. Acton has said she hasn’t spoken to her mother since she was 12, when she was removed from her mother’s custody after her stepfather, Cledith Arthur, was arrested and charged with raping her.Mahoning County court records back...