Democrat Amy Acton will reportedly not debate Republican nominee Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio governor’s race.
\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, Amy Acton’s campaign manager Phil Stein said that she will not be “platforming a scam artist who spreads baseless lies.”
\n\n“Dr. Acton’s focus is talking with Ohioans, not platforming a scam artist who spreads baseless lies about her and her family, uses AI to falsely paint her as someone with a substance abuse problem, and shames Dr. Acton for being sexually abused as a child while Vivek stands with predators and abusers,” he said.
\n\n“Ramaswamy and his billionaire buddies have spent more than $50 million on disgusting, inaccurate attack ads that have been condemned as the ‘most vile and repulsive lies’ Ohio has ever seen,” he added.
\n\nAs noted by reporter Henry Gomez, the “substance abuse accusations, which have not been substantiated, stem from an incident that police responded to at Acton’s home in 2019 in which, per the report, she told officers she’d been drinking and taken an unknown amount of prescription drugs.”
\n\nVivek Ramaswamy responded in a statement, describing debates as the “equivalent of a job interview.”
\n\n“Debates are the equivalent of a job interview for…
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