GOP bitter over blown chance to keep governorship: 'We now deserve to lose this race'

The "fierce, bipartisan backlash" to Ohio Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, left Republicans in Ohio and Washington reeling Wednesday, according to a report from Time.Both Ramaswamy and Vice President JD Vance doubled down on the strategy, Time reported. Vance, who is from Ohio, campaigned near Cincinnati on Wednesday and treated the ad as a "game-changing October surprise," according to Time. “I’ll be honest with you, whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern,” Vance told reporters. “But I have to admit that I’m a little bit disgusted,” he said of Republicans he accused of “whining more about that advertisement” than about congressional Democrats.Privately, however, "old-guard Republicans" were baffled that Ramaswamy would use Acton’s own mother, who has not spoken to her daughter since 1978, when she defended Acton’s stepfather after he was indicted for raping Acton as...