00:02We begin with a big shift on a controversial campaign ad.
00:06President Donald Trump now says Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican running for governor of Ohio,
00:11should keep running a contentious ad against Democrat Amy Acton,
00:15despite calls from both sides of the aisle to take it down.
00:18Remember this from yesterday?
00:20The fact is, I know nothing about it, but I hear the mother went very rogue on the daughter,
00:26doesn't have a lot of respect for the daughter.
00:28It's a very unusual situation to have a mother hate a daughter that much,
00:33but I don't think that has anything to do with Vivek.
00:36That was Trump's initial reaction when asked about the ad,
00:39which features Acton's long-estranged mother calling her daughter a liar
00:43and urging Ohioans not to vote for her.
00:45But here's what Trump said when asked about the ad again on Thursday.
00:49All I know is Amy Acton's mother said horrible things about Amy Acton,
00:54calling her a liar and other things, and unreliable, a lot of very bad things,
00:59and I say that she's fair game.
01:03He doubled down in a post on Truth Social saying Ramaswamy should keep running the ad.
01:07Trump said, quote, who wouldn't use such an ad?
01:10I would. It's called hitting pay dirt.
01:13He also blasted Ohio's Governor Mike DeWine, calling him a rhino, a Republican in name only,
01:19after DeWine joined calls for the ad to be taken down, calling it deeply troubling.
01:23So it's wrong to run this ad. And even at this late time, my wife friend saw the ad run
01:29this morning on TV.
01:33I would just urge the Ramaswamy campaign to take this down. It's just wrong.
01:41DeWine stopped short of pulling support for Ramaswamy, though saying he'll continue to endorse the whole Republican ticket.
01:48Acton says she was sexually abused as a child by her mother's second husband.
01:53He was indicted on assault charges, but never stood trial after skipping bail.
01:57A court terminated her mother's parental rights, and the women have not spoken or seen each other in almost five
02:03decades.
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