Ramaswamy and his allies were bombarded with complaints from Republicans over his sleazy ‘rapist protector mom’ ad, sources tell Zeteo.
  • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zipEnglish
    10 days

    Who could have possibly foreseen that victim blaming an abused 9-12 year old could backfire…

    And zero remorse. They only care that about the effect it had on themselves.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      9 days

      But you know who genuinely can’t see it backfiring? Absolute sociopaths.

      • bagsy@lemmy.world
        9 days

        This is what you get when all of your thoughts and actions are driven by greed and hate.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    10 days

    Behind closed doors, very little of this went over well with the state’s other Republican Party bigwigs, many of whom were furious at Ramaswamy for doing something that could imperil the elections of others on the Ohio GOP ticket

    Yeah, they didn’t care about the ad, just that it could drag them down with him.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    10 days

    You don’t want to elect a guy who doesn’t stand by what he said or did, do you?

    • bampop@lemmy.world
      10 days

      He’s shown himself to be a paragon of Republican values, I don’t know what all the fuss is about. Supporting and spreading the lies of pedo rapists is what this administration is all about.

    • farmgineer@nord.pubEnglish
      10 days

      I think you overestimate Ohioans, especially as horribly germmandered as it illegally is.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        10 days

        especially as horribly germmandered as it illegally is.

        We’re talking about a US Senate seat here. Gerrymandering has no effect.

        I’m sure there’s a School House Rock episode that would explain this better than I can, but the short of it is this: Each state in the USA, no matter how big or small, gets TWO US Senators they send to Washington to represent them in the Senate, no more, no less. Both of the US Senators represent all residents of the state. Every 6 years (the length of term of a Senator), all residents in the entire state vote in that US Senatorial election.

        You may be instead thinking about races in the US House of Representatives where there are Congressional districts carving up the geography inside a state. There’s no such concept for the US Senators each state sends to Washington.

        • adarza@lemmy.ca
          10 days

          state legislatures set the rules by which their state votes. they do have an affect on ‘statewide’ elections. so yea, gerrymandering matters here, too.

          • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
            10 days

            Can you give an example of a rule you’re thinking of that a gerrymandered state legislature has made that will have a material effect on the outcome of the state’s US Senate race, or even more specifically on Ohio’s which is where this conversation started?

            • EbenezerScrew@lemmy.world
              10 days

              I get what you’re saying but one could be putting more polling places in heavier R areas and then less in D areas making the lines longer and harder to vote.

              • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
                10 days

                I don’t know what state you live in, but thats how it works in mine.

                In mine, each county has a County Board of Elections which determine the number and location of polling places. Those County Board of Elections members are appointed by our Secretary of State. The Secretary of State is an elected position by all voters in the state.

                So again, Gerrymandering would have zero effect on location or number of polling places in my state.

                How does it work in your state where you’re seeing Gerrymandering could affect the number or location of polling places?

  • pman@reddthat.com
    10 days

    Yeah too little too late, it was a move someone who knows they’re losing pulls and instead of being classy he did a low thing that made his opponent look way more sympathetic and her mom look so much worse with the slightest investigation, and ties the Republican party more and more with defending rapist pedophiles.