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🗞️ Story file #1093

Vivek Ramaswamy's ad faces backlash in GOP poll

Oct 28, 4 PM ET to Oct 29, 9 AM ET

📰 read it at: Raw Story The Guardian The New Republic Axios Mediaite The Hill Newsmax

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 28, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: Raw Story
  2. Oct 28, 4 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
  3. Oct 28, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 28, 6 PM9 PMOct 293 AM6 AM9 AM47leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 28, 4 PM to Oct 29, 9 AM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 27, 6 PMOct 286 AM12 PM6 PMOct 296 AMThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 27, 7:00 AM ET: Vivek Ramaswamy’s Amy Acton ad makes a false – and sickening – argumentThe Guardian, Oct 27, 1:00 PM ET: Ramaswamy’s ad makes a false, sickening argumentThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 27, 3:00 PM ET: Vivek Ramaswamy stands by terrible Amy Acton ad, but it’s backfiringAxiosAxiosAxios, Oct 28, 2:00 PM ET: Exclusive: Ad backfiring on Ramaswamy, GOP poll findsAxios, Oct 28, 4:00 PM ET: Ad backfiring on Ramaswamy, Republian poll finds...MediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 28, 3:00 PM ET: New Internal Polling Shows Vivek Ramaswamy’s Campaign Sinking After Controversial Ad: ReportRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 28, 4:00 PM ET: Ohio GOP picks power over decency after sticking with Ramaswamy's sickening adNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 28, 4:00 PM ET: GOP Poll: Ramaswamy Ad May Backfire in OhioThe New RepublicThe New RepublicThe New Republic, Oct 28, 4:00 PM ET: Vivek Ramaswamy’s Ad Somehow Gets Even Worse📺 TVMSNOW, 4:56 PM ET: VIRGINIA RAMASWAMY FACES MAJOR BACKLASH OVER ACTIONCNN, 5:33 PM ET: NEW OH GOV RACE AD CONTRASTS ACTON'S JEEP TO RAMASWAMY'S JETCNN, 5:34 PM ET: NEW OH GOV RACE AD CONTRASTS ACTON'S JEEP TO RAMASWAMY'S JETCNN, 5:34 PM ET: NEW OH GOV RACE AD CONTRASTS ACTON'S JEEP TO RAMASWAMY'S JET. Adrienne Elrod | Former Senior Aide, Biden 2020 CampaignCNN, 5:34 PM ET: NEW OH GOV RACE AD CONTRASTS ACTON'S JEEP TO RAMASWAMY'S JETCNN, 5:36 PM ET: NEW OH GOV RACE AD CONTRASTS ACTON'S JEEP TO RAMASWAMY'S JETCNN, 5:36 PM ET: NEW OH GOV RACE AD CONTRASTS ACTON'S JEEP TO RAMASWAMY'S JETCNN, 5:36 PM ET: NEW OH GOV RACE AD CONTRASTS ACTON'S JEEP TO RAMASWAMY'S JET. Erin Covey | Editor, The Cook Political ReportCNN, 5:36 PM ET: NEW OH GOV RACE AD CONTRASTS ACTON'S JEEP TO RAMASWAMY'S JETCNN, 5:37 PM ET: NEW OH GOV RACE AD CONTRASTS ACTON'S JEEP TO RAMASWAMY'S JETCNN, 7:06 PM ET: NOW: TRUMP IN OHIO AGAIN AS RAMASWAMY ATTACK AD MAY BE BACKFIRINGCNN, 7:40 PM ET: NOW: TRUMP IN ORBIT AGAIN AS RAMASWANY ATTACK AD MAY BE BACKFIRINGCNN, 7:41 PM ET: NOW: TRUMP IN OHIO AGAIN AS RAMASWAMY ATTACK AD MAY BE BACKFIRINGCNN, 7:41 PM ET: NOW: TRUMP IN ORBIT AGAIN AS RAMASWANY ATTACK AD MAY BE BACKFIRINGCNN, 7:43 PM ET: NOW: TRUMP IN ORBIT AGAIN AS RAMASWANY ATTACK AD MAY BE BACKFIRINGCNN, 7:43 PM ET: NOW: TRUMP IN OHIO AGAIN AS RAMASWAMY ATTACK AD MAY BE BACKFIRINGFox News, 8:09 PM ET: TRUMP ADDRESSES VIVEK ADFox News, 8:52 PM ET: VIVEK: WE'RE GOING TO END SANCTUARY CITIESMSNOW, 9:41 PM ET: NEW EVIDENCE OHIO GOP ATTACK AD AGAINST ACTON BACKFIRINGMSNOW, 9:42 PM ET: NEW EVIDENCE OHIO GOP ATTACK AD AGAINST ACTON BACKFIRINGMSNOW, 9:48 PM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 9:49 PM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 9:50 PM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 9:50 PM ET: RAMASWAMY ATTACK AD AGAINST AMY ACTON APPEARS TO BACKFIREMSNOW, 9:51 PM ET: RAMASWAMY ATTACK AD AGAINST AMY ACTON APPEARS TO BACKFIREMSNOW, 9:51 PM ET: RAMASWAMY ATTACK AD AGAINST AMY ACTON APPEARS TO BACKFIREMSNOW, 9:52 PM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 9:52 PM ET: RAMASWAMY ATTACK AD AGAINST AMY ACTON APPEARS TO BACKFIREMSNOW, 9:53 PM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 9:56 PM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADCNN, 11:58 PM ET: Do you think Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad could cost him Ohio’s governor’s race, or is its impact being overstated?CNN, 11:59 PM ET: Do you think Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad could cost him Ohio’s governor’s race, or is its impact being overstated?CNN, 12:03 AM ET: TRUMP: RAMASWAMY TREATED "VERY UNFAIRLY" OVER ATTACK ADCNN, 12:04 AM ET: TRUMP: RAMASWAMY TREATED "VERY UNFAIRLY" OVER ATTACK ADCNN, 12:05 AM ET: TRUMP: RAMASWAMY TREATED "VERY UNFAIRLY" OVER ATTACK ADMSNOW, 12:41 AM ET: NEW EVIDENCE GOP ATTACK AD AGAINST ACTON BACKFIRINGMSNOW, 12:42 AM ET: NEW EVIDENCE GOP ATTACK AD AGAINST ACTON BACKFIRINGMSNOW, 12:48 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 12:49 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 12:51 AM ET: RAMASWAMY ATTACK AD AGAINST AMY ACTON APPEARS TO BACKFIREMSNOW, 12:51 AM ET: RAMASWAMY ATTACK AD AGAINST AMY ACTON APPEARS TO BACKFIREMSNOW, 12:52 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 12:52 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 12:52 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 12:53 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 12:53 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 12:54 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 12:55 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 12:55 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 12:56 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADCNN, 1:06 AM ET: TRUMP: RAMASWAMY TREATED "VERY UNFAIRLY" OVER ATTACK ADMSNOW, 1:38 AM ET: Republicans fear that my's explosive attack ad featuring his opponent'sMSNOW, 1:38 AM ET: mother could cost them the Ohio governor's race, based on new internal polling thatMSNOW, 4:41 AM ET: NEW EVIDENCE GOP ATTACK AD AGAINST ACTON BACKFIRINGMSNOW, 4:42 AM ET: NEW EVIDENCE GOP ATTACK AD AGAINST ACTON BACKFIRINGMSNOW, 4:48 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 4:49 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 4:50 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 4:50 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 4:51 AM ET: RAMASWAMY ATTACK AD AGAINST AMY ACTON APPEARS TO BACKFIREMSNOW, 4:51 AM ET: RAMASWAMY ATTACK AD AGAINST AMY ACTON APPEARS TO BACKFIREMSNOW, 4:51 AM ET: RAMASWAMY ATTACK AD AGAINST AMY ACTON APPEARS TO BACKFIREMSNOW, 4:52 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 4:52 AM ET: RAMASWAMY ATTACK AD AGAINST AMY ACTON APPEARS TO BACKFIREMSNOW, 4:53 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 4:54 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 4:54 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 4:55 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 4:55 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEARS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADMSNOW, 4:56 AM ET: AMY ACTON SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RAMASWAMY ATTACK ADCNN, 5:03 AM ET: President Defends Ramaswamy: "Vivek Was Treated Very Unfairly"CNN, 5:32 AM ET: President Rallies With Ohio GOP Candidates Hosted, RamaswamyCNN, 5:32 AM ET: Candidates Hosted, RamaswamyCNN, 5:32 AM ET: President Rallies With Ohio GOP Candidates Hosted, RamaswamyCNN, 5:33 AM ET: President Defends Ramaswamy: "Vivek Was Treated Very Unfairly"CNN, 6:53 AM ET: AXIOS: GOP POLLING SUGGESTS RAMASWAMY AD BACKFIRINGCNN, 6:54 AM ET: AXIOS: GOP POLLING SUGGESTS RAMASWAMY AD BACKFIRINGCNN, 6:54 AM ET: AXIOS: GOP POLLING SUGGESTS RAMASWAMY AD BACKFIRINGCNN, 6:55 AM ET: AXIOS: GOP POLLING SUGGESTS RAMASWAMY AD BACKFIRINGCNN, 6:55 AM ET: AXIOS: GOP POLLING SUGGESTS RAMASWAMY AD BACKFIRINGCNN, 6:55 AM ET: AXIOS: GOP POLLING SUGGESTS RAMASWAMY AD BACKFIRINGCNN, 6:56 AM ET: AXIOS: GOP POLLING SUGGESTS RAMASWAMY AD BACKFIRINGCNN, 6:56 AM ET: AXIOS: GOP POLLING SUGGESTS RAMASWAMY AD BACKFIRINGCNN, 6:56 AM ET: AXIOS: GOP POLLING SUGGESTS RAMASWAMY AD BACKFIRINGCNN, 7:16 AM ET: TALARICO UNVEILS AD WITH REPUBLICANS SAYING THEY WON'T VOTE FOR PAXTONCNN, 7:16 AM ET: TALARICO UNVEILS AD WITH REPUBLICANS SAYING THEY WON'T VOTE FOR PAXTON
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Political Wire

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Axios (2 wordings): “Exclusive: Ad backfiring on Ramaswamy, GOP poll finds” → “Ad backfiring on Ramaswamy, Republian poll finds...”
  • The Guardian (2 wordings): “Vivek Ramaswamy’s Amy Acton ad makes a false – and sickening – argument” → “Ramaswamy’s ad makes a false, sickening argument”
📰 Every outlet's headline 7left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. 🫏 MSNOW 30 min
  2. 🫏 CNN 19 min
  3. 🐘 Fox News 88 s

📻 On the radio

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

🎙️ On the shows

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🎙️🤷 No show matched to it yet.

🕵️ Investigated, joked about

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

  1. 🃏 The Borowitz Report 1

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

Vivek RamaswamyOhioRepublican Party

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Ramaswamy ad controversy

  1. Cook Political Report shifts Ohio governor race to lean Democrat after Ramaswamy ad controversy

    Oct 23, 11 PM ET

  2. Vivek Ramaswamy's attack ad sparks GOP internal conflict and Trump's public defense

    Oct 20, 11 AM ET

  3. Vivek Ramaswamy's ad faces backlash in GOP poll (this story)

    Oct 28, 4 PM ET

  4. Ramaswamy discontinues controversial attack ad featuring Acton's estranged mother

    Oct 29, 2 PM ET

  5. Democrat Amy Acton defeats Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio governor's race

    Nov 3, 11 PM ET

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