Obama says there is no line Ramaswamy will not cross
Barack ObamaFormer U.S. president
At an October 24 rally with Acton in Cleveland, Obama says Ramaswamy will do anything to get attention and that in recent days he has shown there is no line he will not cross.
“And in recent days, we've seen there is no line he will not cross, no low he will not sink to.”
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Where this statement fits
Ramaswamy's campaign defends using Amy Acton's estranged mother in an attack ad
Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign produced an advertisement in which Amy Acton's estranged mother accuses her of lying. Acton says Ramaswamy took advantage of her mother, and the campaign defends its attack on Acton's credibility. Critics from both parties condemn the tactic, while Laura Loomer defends it.
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ABC News report by Juhi Doshi, republished by ABC30. It includes her October 24 interview with Acton and quotations from Obama at the Cleveland rally.
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CBS News report on Obama's October 24 rally in Cleveland with Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown. It quotes Obama's remarks about Ramaswamy and the ad, and Acton's interview with CBS News before the rally.
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At the Cleveland rally with Acton and Sherrod Brown, Obama calls Ramaswamy "thirsty" for attention and says he is willing to do anything to get it.
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According to CBS News, Obama then says there is a decency the public should expect from officials and that he does not know how standards of behavior fell so low "that somebody could run an ad like that."
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The reference point is the Ramaswamy campaign's use of Acton's estranged mother in its ad. The quoted sentence speaks of Ramaswamy's conduct in recent days, and CBS News reports that Obama went on in the same passage to say he did not know how standards fell so low that somebody could run an ad like that. Read with that passage, the remark criticizes the ad, so we labeled it Condemned.
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Doerr criticizes the ad's missing family context
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Butland says the ad crosses a moral line
“On the measure of right or wrong, this falls on the wrong side”Read statement
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