This red state race could spell big trouble for MAGA's post-Trump future: column

An instantly infamous Republican attack ad in Ohio may be exposing deep fault lines over what comes after Donald Trump, according to an analysis.In a new column, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg wrote that Vivek Ramaswamy, the GOP nominee for Ohio governor, released “what may be the most disgusting ad in American political history.” In doing so, Goldberg argued, he opened “a kind of proxy debate on the right about whether a post-Trump conservatism should try to reclaim some base-line morality or continue along its current smashmouth course.”The ad features the elderly mother of Democratic nominee Amy Acton calling her daughter a liar. Acton was 12 when her stepfather was indicted on charges of raping her. He fled before trial, and her mother stood by him, lost custody of her children and has not seen Acton since 1978. The spot first circulated online without attribution, but as outrage mounted,...