Ohio races launch increasingly personal attacks as Election Day looms large

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EXCLUSIVE — Knife-edge gubernatorial and House races in Ohio are cutting deep personally, as candidates and their opponents point to their respective pasts as they ask Buckeye State voters to entrust them with their future.

This week, Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad including Democratic opponent Amy Acton’s estranged mother has consumed their race for the governor’s mansion. Ramaswamy has stood behind the ad by pledging to spend $4 million to promote it ahead of Election Day, even as outgoing Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) has urged him to pull it.

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