🚨 BREAKING: This ad, when tested, moves swing voters 10 points away from Trump & Republicans.
THAT’S HUGE.
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Turns out Americans hate Trump’s stupid war. 🤷♂️
#RepublicanTrickleDown
Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine on Vivek Ramaswamy's attack ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged and abusive mother:
“The ad, on its face is, deeply, deeply troubling. But when you know the rest of the story, when you know the backstory, when you know that the husband of the mom was indicted by a grand jury after hearing testimony, and then he took off along with the mother. When you know that, it just... makes it more serious. It makes it just more wrong. So it's wrong to run this... I would just urge the Ramaswamy campaign to take this down."
Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband.
Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.
President Trump said in Ohio tonight that other than gas, "your other prices have all come down" since the Biden presidency. A big and obvious lie. https://t.co/0f6kONuYT6
I’m going to say something a lot of Republicans probably don’t want to hear.
I think Vivek Ramaswamy is going to lose the Ohio governor’s race. And I don’t think it will be because Ohio suddenly stopped being conservative. I think it will be because Ohio’s Republican leadership made a mistake by trying to pick the governor before Ohio Republicans ever got to vote.
The Ohio Republican Party endorsed Vivek nearly a year before the primary. That should bother conservatives, regardless of who they support.
We believe in elections. We believe voters should have a choice. We believe the people not party insiders should decide who represents them.
You don’t get to complain about the political establishment while benefiting from the establishment deciding the race before the primary even happens.
Then there’s COVID.
Vivek has made Amy Acton (not sticking up for her) and Ohio’s COVID response a major part of his campaign. Fine. Republicans have every right to criticize the decisions made during COVID. I certainly have my own criticisms.
But here’s the part people need to remember.
Vivek was involved in Ohio’s COVID response in 2020. He worked with the DeWine administration as an adviser and participated in discussions about Ohio’s response.
And when it comes to the 2020 primary being postponed, Mike DeWine has said repeatedly that decision was his.
So blaming Amy Acton for everything while conveniently leaving out the Republican governor who was actually in charge and leaving out his own involvement in the administration’s COVID response doesn’t exactly scream accountability.
Conservatives shouldn’t have one standard for Democrats and another for Republicans.
If someone wants to run on accountability, then their own record should be fair game too.
This isn’t personal.
It’s politics.
And I think Ohio voters are going to look at the whole picture.
The early endorsement.
The attempt to make the primary feel like a formality.
The COVID record.
The attacks on “heritage Americans” as a way to make us less than.
Ohio Republicans aren’t stupid. They don’t need the party to tell them who to vote for. They don’t need Washington to tell them. And they sure don’t need a coronation.
They need a choice.
I believe Vivek is going to find out the hard way that winning an endorsement is not the same thing as winning the confidence of Ohio voters.
The primary belongs to the voters.
Not the party.
Not the consultants.
Not the insiders.
The voters.
And that’s exactly how it should be.
Vivek Ramaswamy attacks Ohio's COVID response but his own company secured a $2 billion dollar settlement tied to COVID vaccine technology.
He lobbied for a national registry to "segregate" Americans by immunity status. Then he paid an editor to scrub his role on Ohio's COVID team from Wikipedia. Ramaswamy cares more about making a profit than keeping Ohioans safe.
https://t.co/6a2lC3iDuP
Vivek Ramaswamy wants Ohioans to believe he’s a business success story. But new reporting raises serious questions about the “pump and dump” deal that helped make him rich: a failed Alzheimer’s drug, manipulated data, enormous patient losses — and millions for Ramaswamy. Here’s what happened. 🧵
Ian Wright is an absolute hero for saying how we all feel about this World Cup…
“I've just read that the Somalian referee has been denied entry. Every few hours it's another story, another story about fans denied, players denied, officials denied, journalists denied, now refs," Wright said.
"You know something I'm laughing but it's not funny, it's actually not funny and something has to be said.
"The expensive tickets, the most expensive tickets ever, expensive accommodation, transport through the roof. It has to be said.
"Is this how the hosts behave really for the greatest game, the greatest tournament in the world, is this how the hosts behave?
"Are we not hearing more? Are we seeing how Qatar got dragged, are we not hearing more? Is this the spirit of football, really?
"You know who I feel for? I feel for the American fans who are desperate for this, American soccer fans who are desperate for this, how embarrassed they must be. How embarrassing for them this must be.
"This is the World Cup, this is a World Cup of chaos. Whoever wins this World Cup is going to have to go through some serious chaos to get this done.
"I hope we can do it, but something has to be said now. This is the World Cup."