# Trump defends Ramaswamy attack ad amid GOP backlash

https://mins.news/en/video/112931

- CNN, 2026-10-23 14:50 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePI9YkVcvOw

> While campaigning in Iowa for Senate candidate Ashley Hinson, Donald Trump backed Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad about rival Amy Acton’s estranged mother, urging him to keep it running and saying its contents were fair game. Hinson called for the ad to be taken down. Acton says she has not spoken to her mother since 1978; her mother lost custody of her and her brother when Acton was 12.

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