Dem Star Unleashes Devastating Ad After MAGA’s Vilest Attack

Getty/Reuters Democrat Amy Acton has hit back at a MAGA candidate the same day he said he will spend $4 million to air a controversial attack ad featuring her estranged mother, whom she alleges did nothing after her stepfather raped her.

Acton, running for governor of Ohio against Trump-endorsed Vivek Ramaswamy, has been targeted in a 60-second ad featuring her mother, Donna Arthur, who called her a “liar” and said she “needs help.” “She says she grew up living in a tent—none of that is true.

She’s lied her entire life,” Arthur says, in what even some on the right viewed as an over-the-line attack.

“My daughter needs help, and she can’t help you if she needs help herself.

People can change, but first they have to tell the truth, and my daughter still isn’t doing that.” The Acton campaign responded quickly on Tuesday, releasing a 30-second spot featuring her brother, Phil Stearns, condemning the Republican.

“I received a lot of abuse, but Amy always got the worst of it,” Stearns says.

“She continued to receive that abuse because she knew she had to protect me from that, and if she hadn’t done that, who knows where I would have ended up.” Searns continues: “She was 11 and 12 years old, and to think that that’s somehow a talking point—shame on Vivek.

The contempt he has for Amy is the contempt he has for Ohio.

He’s not fit to lead.” Acton, in a video for the Democratic Governors Association, recalled “a lot of abuse and neglect” growing up in Youngstown, including being “homeless in the middle of winter.” Acton, 60, told The Vindicator in 2019 that she was sexually abused from ages 9 to 12.

In 1978, after Acton’s biological father filed a police report, her stepfather was charged with rape, according to a newspaper report cited by The New York Times.

Acton’s stepfather was indicted by a grand jury and pleaded not guilty, but fled Ohio before trial, prompting a warrant for his arrest.

He died in 2004.

During court testimony, Arthur supported her husband rather than Acton, who testified against him.

Arthur and Acton have said they haven’t been in contact since then.