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Instead, the Republican claimed, his opponent was lying \u201cabout her history\u201d.Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for Ohio governor, defended his campaign\u2019s attack ad against Dr Amy Acton, his Democratic rival, on Friday.The Ramaswamy campaign ad features Acton\u2019s estranged mother, Donna Arthur, accusing the daughter she lost custody of in 1978, after her second husband was charged with raping her then 12-year-old daughter, of lying about her childhood.According to police and court documents obtained by the Associated Press, Arthur\u2019s second husband, Cledith Arthur, was arrested and charged with the rape of his stepdaughter in July 1978, after Acton\u2019s biological father reported him to authorities. The abuse allegedly happened from December 1976 to April 1978, when Acton was between 10 and 12 years old.Cledith Arthur pleaded not guilty and was indicted by a grand jury that September, but failed to show at a court hearing and remained a fugitive until at least 1981. Donna Arthur fled the state with her husband, who later died.Philip Stearns, Acton\u2019s brother, said in a statement denouncing the ad that after his stepfather was arrested \u201cand Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy\u2019s rapist until he died.\u201dIn the attack ad, Donna Arthur called her daughter \u201ca liar\u201d and said \u201cshe lies about her past; she says she grew up living in a tent, none of that is true.\u201d That part of the ad uses stock video of a tent that had previously appeared in a biographical ad from Acton\u2019s campaign, in which the candidate described her troubled upbringing. \u201cI think it was somewhere off Route 7,\u201d the candidate recalls. \u201cI was 12, and we were living in a tent.\u201dA campaign ad for Dr Amy Acton, the Democratic nominee for Ohio governor, posted online in July.A copy of the 1978 arrest warrant for Cledith Arthur, posted online on Friday by Nick Evans, a reporter for the Ohio Capital Journal, suggests that Acton was telling the truth. The warrant lists a campground off Ohio Route 7 in Rogers, Ohio as Cledith Arthur\u2019s address.\u201cIn 1982, after the Arthurs had skipped bail and fled Ohio, a deputy attempted to serve a warrant at\u201d the same campground, Evans reports. \u201cIn a hand written note, the deputy relays that the park\u2019s manager said Arthur \u2018has not camped here for over two years.\u2019\u201dKey events11h agoClosing summary11h agoAfter lashing out at a reporter who pressed him on ignoring sexual abuse, Trump ends his day with a softball question from a friendly outlet12h agoPeltola calls federal lawsuit to block Alaska results should she win 'a very desperate attempt to cling to power'12h agoAbdul El-Sayed to run new ad on Fox News and Newsmax filled with praise for him from Fox News and Newsmax hosts13h ago'We\u2019ll take care of Cuba on our way back from Iran', Trump tells Florida crowd14h agoRamaswamy campaign staffers blame candidate for attack ad - report15h agoRamaswamy accuses Acton of 'lying' about attack ad, but court records contradict claim made by Acton's mother in ad16h agoAt Florida rally, Trump again shows CNN video on his support from Maga Republicans17h agoHere's a recap of the day so far17h agoTrump falsely claims that other Dan Sullivan on Alaska ballot is 'cheating'17h agoSusan Collins announces tariff exemptions on Canadian products ahead of competitive re-election race in Maine18h ago'I'm the one that said do it': Trump touts lawsuit to block Senate race certification in Alaska19h agoWhat early voting numbers can tell us about the midterms so far20h agoTrump doubles down on support for widely condemned Ramaswamy ad, scolds reporter for asking about GOP backlash21h agoJustice department files lawsuit to challenge results of Alaska Senate race22h agoMajority of voters say they will trust midterm results, according to new poll1d agoTrump to rally in Florida amid growing outcry over Ramaswamy attack adClosing summaryThis concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back on Saturday. Here are the latest developments:\n \n Donald Trump started his day by lashing out at a female White House correspondent who asked him \u201cDo the sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir?\u201d, as the president refused to admit that the credibility of a woman featured in Republican Vivek Ramaswamy\u2019s attack ad was fatally undermined by the fact that she sided with the man charged with raping her 12-year-old daughter.\n \n \n Democrat Mary Peltola, the former Alaska congresswoman running for Senate against the incumbent Republican senator, Dan Sullivan, and an independent candidate named Daniel Sullivan, told MS Now that the justice department lawsuit to block the certification of Alaska\u2019s results if the Republican incumbent loses \u201cis clearly corruption.\u201d\n \n \n Ramaswamy accused Acton, of \u201clying about lying\u201d in her outraged response to the attack ad released by his campaign. But a copy of the 1978 arrest warrant for Cledith Arthur, Acton\u2019s then-stepfather, suggests that Acton was telling the truth.\n \nAfter lashing out at a reporter who pressed him on ignoring sexual abuse, Trump ends his day with a softball question from a friendly outletDonald Trump started his day by lashing out at a female White House correspondent who asked him \u201cDo the sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir?\u201d, as the president refused to admit that the credibility of a woman featured in Republican Vivek Ramaswamy\u2019s attack ad was fatally undermined by the fact that she sided with the man charged with raping her 12-year-old daughter.Trump insisted that the ad, in which the mother of Dr Amy Acton, a Democrat running for Ohio governor, called her estranged daughter a liar, was valid, even though Acton\u2019s mother had lost custody of her children in 1978, when her second husband was charged with raping her daughter.\u201cA mother is saying, \u2018Don\u2019t put my daughter there because she\u2019s a terrible person and she\u2019s a liar\u2019. Why shouldn\u2019t somebody use that?\u201d Trump said.\u201cBut do the sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir?\u201d Monica Alba of NBC News asked.As he tried to ignore her and press on with his point that the ad was damning, Alba repeated: \u201cBut do sexual abuse allegations make no difference?\u201cWait, wait, wait, wait. Slow down. Who are you with? Who you with?\u201d Trump asked.After Alba identified her network and Trump criticized it, she said again: \u201cBut there are very serious sexual abuse allegations.\u201d\u201cQuiet,\u201d Trump said.\u201cThey make no difference to you?\u201d Alba asked again.Donald Trump lashed out at Monica Alba on NBS News on Friday.\u201cIsn\u2019t she a fresh person?\u201d Trump asked another reporter, before turning to Alba and saying: \u201cYou\u2019re a horrible little reporter, aren\u2019t you?\u201dAfter pressing ahead with his talking point that the observations of a mother must be valuable, Trump turned back to Alba and asked: \u201cWhy wouldn\u2019t you listen to a mother that says that? Why wouldn\u2019t you listen, Miss NBC?\u201d\u201cShe stayed with a stepfather-\u201d Alba began.\u201cWait a minute, quiet,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about a stepfather.\u201dAlba continued: \u201cwho was charged with raping his stepdaughter in 1978, sir.\u201d\u201cYou just keep talking,\u201d Trump told her.\u201cI am answering you, sir.,\u201d she replied.\u201cI don\u2019t know anything about stepfathers,\u201d the president repeated and then reiterated that the allegation of sexual abuse did, in fact, mean nothing to him.That evening, instead of taking questions from nonpartisan outlets, Trump limited his last exchange of the day to a single softball question from a reporter from the rightwing news channel Real America\u2019s Voice, who told the president his rally was fun and then asked him to trash FBI officials his administration accuses of helping suppress reports about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop in 2020.Peltola calls federal lawsuit to block Alaska results should she win 'a very desperate attempt to cling to power'Democrat Mary Peltola, the former Alaska congresswoman running for Senate against the incumbent Republican senator, Dan Sullivan, and an independent candidate named Daniel Sullivan, told MS Now on Friday that the justice department lawsuit to block the certification of Alaska\u2019s results if the Republican incumbent loses \u201cis clearly corruption.\u201dThe federal intervention Donald Trump says he ordered, on the premise that some voters might mistakenly vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan, \u201cis not playing well with Alaskans at all,\u201d Peltola said.\u201cIt\u2019s sending a message that Dan Sullivan does not believe that Alaskans are sophisticated enough to know exactly who they\u2019re voting for and what the implications of their vote is,\u201d she added. \u201cI mean, Alaskans are very dialed into this race because 24 hours a day, the Pacs are running ads and attack ads. So there\u2019s no room for anybody to not be thinking about this Senate race.\u201d\u201cThis is clearly a very desperate attempt to cling to power,\u201d Peltola said of her Trump-endorsed Republican rival, \u201cusing his allies in Washington, DC to rig the system even further.\u201dPeltola also noted that the ballot in Alaska\u2019s Senate race clearly \u201csays incumbent\u201d next to Dan Sullivan\u2019s name, \u201cso there just isn\u2019t much room for confusion on the ballot.\u201dBecause Alaska uses a ranked-choice voting system, any voters who are confused as to which Dan or Daniel Sullivan they want in office, could simply rank both of them and no other candidate.Peltola was interviewed by the host Nicole Wallace, a former communications director in George W Bush\u2019s White House who, as a senior adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign in 2008, tried to convince Americans that Sarah Palin was ready to be president.\u201cI\u2019ve spent a little bit of time in Alaska,\u201d Wallace noted at the start of the interview, causing Peltola to chuckle.\u201cI feel remorse for my role in the final weeks of the McCain-Palin effort,\u201d Wallace said in 2020, \u201cthat I was part of an effort to suggest in interviews and otherwise that she was ready to be president if she had to step in to that role.\u201dAbdul El-Sayed to run new ad on Fox News and Newsmax filled with praise for him from Fox News and Newsmax hostsDr Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democrat battling a Republican opponent and rightwing media for a seat in the US Senate, announced on Friday that he is buying ad time on Fox News and Newsmax to run a new ad filled with praise for him from Fox News and Newsmax hosts.At the start of the ad, El-Sayed tells voters who get their news from the rightwing outlets: \u201cWe agree on a lot: Washington is a corrupt swamp; the big corporations and elites run the show there, and it raises our costs; release the Epstein files; and yeah, free speech is under attack, and we should Make America Healthy Again, stop wasting our tax dollars on overseas wars and end bad trade deals.\u201dThen he introduces a package of clips from the rightwing hosts and podcasters by saying, \u201cDon\u2019t want to take my word for it? How about some folks you know a little bit better?\u201dThe ad then cuts together grudging and genuine praise for the Democrat from: the Fox hosts Jesse Waters, Ainsley Earhardt, Jessica Tarlov and Lara Trump; Newsmax host Lidia Curanaj; Saagar Enjeti on Tucker Carlson\u2019s podcast and former Republican congresswoman-turned-podcaster Nancy Mace.A campaign ad for Abdul El-Sayed aimed at viewers of Fox News and Newsmax.'We\u2019ll take care of Cuba on our way back from Iran', Trump tells Florida crowdDonald Trump casually hinted at likely US military action against Cuba during a campaign rally in Fort Myers, Florida on Friday.About midway through his 90 minute speech, as he described the toll inflicted on Iran by the Pentagon, Trump\u2019s remarks were interrupted by a supporter shouting \u201cWhat about Cuba?\u201d\u201cHe wants to know what about Cuba. Give me a break,\u201d Trump said. \u201cDon\u2019t worry, we\u2019ll take care of Cuba on our way back from Iran. We\u2019ll just- we\u2019ll do a little stopover\u201d.\u201cActually, what we\u2019re going to do with Cuba is we\u2019re going to come back from Iran,\u201d Trump went on, making a swerving gesture with his hand. \u201cThose beautiful ships will pass Cuba. We\u2019ll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast, they\u2019ll raise up their hands and then we\u2019re going to send Marco Rubio in to finish up the deal.\u201d\u201cWe\u2019ll have Marco \u2013 Marco!\u201d he continued. \u201cWe don\u2019t even have to stop, we could just put him in there and he\u2019ll figure it out.\u201dDonald Trump waves at a campaign rally at Alico Arena on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University on 23 October. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/APTrump has dropped similar hints about a US regime change operation on more than a dozen occasions this year.Minutes after the president stopped speaking, Rubio, his secretary of state, urged Cubans to collaborate with US spies to topple their own government.\u201cTo those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time,\u201d Rubio posted. \u201cThe disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete [sic] partnership with the CIA.\u201dThe top US diplomat, whose parents left Cuba for the United States before the socialist revolution there, seemed to mistakenly use the word \u201cdiscrete\u201d meaning separate, rather than \u201cdiscreet\u201d meaning private or secret.Ramaswamy campaign staffers blame candidate for attack ad - reportAmid the bipartisan backlash against Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, for running an attack ad against his Democratic rival in the Ohio governor race, Amy Acton, which features Acton\u2019s estranged mother, Ramaswamy campaign staffers are blaming the candidate for the ad, Axios correspondent Marc Caputo told MS Now on Friday.\u201cFrom what we understand at Axios, Ramaswamy was the one who wanted the ad and his campaign didn\u2019t,\u201d Caputo said. \u201cSo what they did is, they wanted to show him that it wasn\u2019t popular. And nowadays when you test an ad, you send people an email or a text message with a copy of the ad for them to rate it. Someone saw that ad; they got polled. They screen-capped it, screen-recorded and published it online, and it just got the most negative reception I\u2019ve seen in a very long time.\u201dRamaswamy accuses Acton of 'lying' about attack ad, but court records contradict claim made by Acton's mother in adVivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for Ohio governor, accused his Democratic opponent, Dr Amy Acton, of \u201clying about lying\u201d in her outraged response to an attack ad released by his campaign.\u201cWe ran an ad about lying,\u201d Ramaswamy argued on Friday, \u201cit had nothing to do with childhood abuse\u201d. Instead, the Republican claimed, his opponent was lying \u201cabout her history\u201d.Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for Ohio governor, defended his campaign\u2019s attack ad against Dr Amy Acton, his Democratic rival, on Friday.The Ramaswamy campaign ad features Acton\u2019s estranged mother, Donna Arthur, accusing the daughter she lost custody of in 1978, after her second husband was charged with raping her then 12-year-old daughter, of lying about her childhood.According to police and court documents obtained by the Associated Press, Arthur\u2019s second husband, Cledith Arthur, was arrested and charged with the rape of his stepdaughter in July 1978, after Acton\u2019s biological father reported him to authorities. The abuse allegedly happened from December 1976 to April 1978, when Acton was between 10 and 12 years old.Cledith Arthur pleaded not guilty and was indicted by a grand jury that September, but failed to show at a court hearing and remained a fugitive until at least 1981. Donna Arthur fled the state with her husband, who later died.Philip Stearns, Acton\u2019s brother, said in a statement denouncing the ad that after his stepfather was arrested \u201cand Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy\u2019s rapist until he died.\u201dIn the attack ad, Donna Arthur called her daughter \u201ca liar\u201d and said \u201cshe lies about her past; she says she grew up living in a tent, none of that is true.\u201d That part of the ad uses stock video of a tent that had previously appeared in a biographical ad from Acton\u2019s campaign, in which the candidate described her troubled upbringing. \u201cI think it was somewhere off Route 7,\u201d the candidate recalls. \u201cI was 12, and we were living in a tent.\u201dA campaign ad for Dr Amy Acton, the Democratic nominee for Ohio governor, posted online in July.A copy of the 1978 arrest warrant for Cledith Arthur, posted online on Friday by Nick Evans, a reporter for the Ohio Capital Journal, suggests that Acton was telling the truth. The warrant lists a campground off Ohio Route 7 in Rogers, Ohio as Cledith Arthur\u2019s address.\u201cIn 1982, after the Arthurs had skipped bail and fled Ohio, a deputy attempted to serve a warrant at\u201d the same campground, Evans reports. \u201cIn a hand written note, the deputy relays that the park\u2019s manager said Arthur \u2018has not camped here for over two years.\u2019\u201dAt Florida rally, Trump again shows CNN video on his support from Maga RepublicansBefore Donald Trump finished his remarks in Florida, he took a moment to show supporters one of his favorite clips \u2013 part of a segment from CNN, in which the network\u2019s chief data analyst, Harry Enten, discussed the fact that recent polling shows Trump\u2019s support among self-described \u201cMaga Republicans\u201d had only declined from 99% to 98% since 2024.Given that Maga Republicans are people who define themselves as supporters of Trump\u2019s Make America Great Again movement, that is perhaps unsurprising. What Trump failed to mention is that the same CNN analyst has more recently tracked the sharp decline in Trump\u2019s support among Republicans, and the broader public.Here's a recap of the day so far\n \n Donald Trump touted the justice department lawsuit that attempts to block the Senate race certification in Alaska, if the incumbent Republican that he has endorsed there loses. \u201cI\u2019m the one that said do it,\u201d Trump told reporters ahead of a campaign rally in Florida. More here\n \n \n Without evidence, the president claimed that Daniel J Sullivan, the retired schoolteacher and registered Republican running against the incumbent GOP senator Daniel S Sullivan, was \u201cput up\u201d by Democrats to siphon the vote against the Trump-endorsed candidate. A reminder that both Sullivans (no relation to one another) will be competing against Mary Peltola, the former Democratic congresswoman, who is currently leading in many polls against the incumbent Sullivan.\n \n \n Earlier, Trump doubled down on his support for Vivek Ramaswamy\u2019s widely condemned ad that features the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent in the Ohio governor\u2019s race, Amy Acton. \u201cIf my mother said bad things about me, do you think the Democrats would put it up? I think so, but my mother thought I was wonderful,\u201d Trump said in response to Monica Alba, a reporter from NBC News.\n \n \n Outside the White House on Friday, Trump scolded Alba, the reporter who followed up with questions about Acton\u2019s childhood, and whether that changed the president\u2019s perspective on the ad. \u201cYou\u2019re a horrible little reporter, aren\u2019t you?\u201d Trump said, while continuing to ignore the myriad questions about the number of Republicans who have disavowed the ad. A reminder that Acton was removed from her mother\u2019s care when she was 12, after her stepfather was charged with sexually abusing her. Her mother, Donna Arthur, fled the state with her husband, before his trial, and remained married to him until his death in 2004.\n \n \n Susan Collins, the vulnerable Republican senator in Maine vying for a sixth term in office, said that she had secured additional tariffs exemptions on Canadian products that are crucial to her state\u2019s agricultural industries. \u201cMany of our farmers and growers rely on specialized equipment, packaging materials, and other products from Canada that are either unavailable from American suppliers or cannot be replaced without incurring significant expense,\u201d Collins said in a statement.\n \nAs part of the slew of midterm campaign promises that the Trump administration has made in recent days, the president said that he will invest $250m \u201cto hire at least 5,000 new nurses in elder care facilities all across America\u201d, focused particularly on Florida.This comes after the president announced $8bn financial aid package for American farmers during a campaign rally in Kansas earlier this week, and JD Vance, the vice-president, announced a $1.3bn investment in domestic fertilizer manufacturing. Trump falsely claims that other Dan Sullivan on Alaska ballot is 'cheating'As we bring you the news about the justice department lawsuit against Alaska, that Donald Trump said he ordered, the president doubled down on his baseless claims that the ballot for US Senate Alaska is an attempt to confuse voters.A reminder that there are two Dan Sullivans up for election in the pivotal race. Dan S Sullivan, the Trump-backed Republican incumbent, will face Dan J Sullivan, the retired schoolteacher who is also a registered Republican. On stage, Trump suggested again, without evidence, that this is a move orchestrated to boost Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee.\u201cSo the Democrats maybe here they\u2019re not so dumb \u2026 It\u2019s cheating like hell, but it\u2019s not the dumbest thing in the world,\u201d Trump said.Susan Collins announces tariff exemptions on Canadian products ahead of competitive re-election race in MaineSusan Collins, the vulnerable Republican senator in Maine vying for a sixth term in office, said that she had secured additional tariffs exemptions on Canadian products that are crucial to her state\u2019s agricultural industries.\u201cMany of our farmers and growers rely on specialized equipment, packaging materials, and other products from Canada that are either unavailable from American suppliers or cannot be replaced without incurring significant expense,\u201d Collins said in a statement. \u201cIn my repeated conversations with ambassador [Jamieson] Greer, secretary [Howard] Lutnick, and other senior administration officials, I have asked for tariff relief for these important products.\u201dCollins has positioned herself as a moderate Republican, comfortable breaking with Donald Trump, and touted the millions in federal funds she\u2019s directed back to Maine as chair of the powerful Senate appropriations committee.Throughout campaigning the GOP incumbent has distanced herself from many of the administration\u2019s unpopular policies \u2013 particularly in a state that Trump has lost in the past three presidential elections.In one of the Senate debates against her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, Collins said she has been \u201cthe most outspoken opponent of the tariffs on Canada\u201d.\u201cCanada is not China. 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