Barack Obama
Role at the time: Former U.S. president
Statement summary
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.”
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.
Why we used this label
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.