Trump said Thursday that "she's fair game." Amy Acton is the Democrat running for governor of Ohio, and the ad in question is her own mother's.
Here is the ad.
Donna Arthur looks into the camera and talks about her daughter. "Amy has a serious problem," she says. "She lies about her past." "My daughter needs help, and she can't help you if she needs help herself." "Don't vote for people who lie." Nobody claimed it at first. An Ohio political blogger posted it Monday night after a voter recorded it inside a survey, and Donald Trump Jr. shared it. On Tuesday Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican running against Acton, told reporters, "It is an ad from our campaign," and said he would spend $4 million putting it on Ohio television. Ramaswamy was losing when the ad went up. Marist polled Ohio from Oct. 15 to 18, the four days before the video surfaced, and had Acton at 50% to his 43% among likely voters, 53% to 34% among independents.
Donna Arthur does not say why she and her daughter have not spoken.
