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Vivek Ramaswamy’s Amy Acton ad makes a false – and sickening – argument

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Republican attacks on the candidate for governor are contradictory and hinge on a warped understanding of sexual abuse I’ve heard people say that the Ramaswamy team must have been scared. Last week, the campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy, the tech billionaire and onetime Republican presidential candidate w

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Both outlets center on Ramaswamy’s ad and the backlash around it, but they frame the story differently. The Hill’s headline and extract emphasize that he is standing by the ad while it is “backfiring,” and its extract adds a moral judgment about “weaponizing” trauma. The Guardian US is alone in foregrounding the claim that the ad makes a “false” and “sickening” argument and in tying that to a broader criticism of Republican attacks.

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