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Vivek Ramaswamy, whom I once regarded as an interesting, if not creditable Republican politician for the future, has probably just blown the Ohio gubernatorial race and -- aside from any future appointments by Trump -- torpedoed his political future once and for all.A new attack ad features the estranged mother of Democratic candidate for Ohio governor Amy Acton calling her a "liar" and defending her GOP opponent Vivek Ramaswamy. Acton's campaign and her brother denounced the ad as a "despicable low."Acton's mother, Donna Arthur, whose husband was accused of raping Acton when she was a child, says in the spot, "It's not easy for a mother to say this, but Amy was a serious problem. She is a liar; she lies about her past."...[Acton's brother] said that after their stepfather, Cledith Arthur, was arrested and charged, he and Acton were removed from the Arthurs' custody and lived with their father. "Our birth mother stayed married to Amy's rapist until he died," Stearns said. "This…

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