Chris Christie slammed JD Vance for backing Vivek Ramaswamy after the Republican candidate for governor in Ohio ran a disgraceful campaign against his opponent.
Ramaswamy, who ultimately lost to Democrat Amy Acton, was behind a sick ad featuring Acton’s estranged mother.
The ad neglected to mention that Arthur lost custody of her young daughter after Acton’s stepfather, Cledith “Bud” Arthur, was charged with sexually abusing Acton as a child.
While candidates and politicians from both sides of the political spectrum criticized the ad’s cruelty, Vance defended the ad ― something Christie thinks was a huge mistake.
“You not only have to question the judgment of a man who would take a woman, an elderly woman, out of the car she was living in, in a parking lot of a church in Pennsylvania with her cats, and put her in front of a video camera ― and make that a TV ad in a gubernatorial race,” Christie said in an interview on ABC News, referring to Ramaswamy and his ad.
“We know what Vivek Ramaswamy is, and the voters have judged him as such. But here’s the real problem going forward: JD Vance stood 100% with Vivek Ramaswamy not only as a person and a candidate, but he stood behind that ad,” Christie said.
While the former governor of New Jersey said that Ramaswamy will go to the “dustbin of history,” he said that “JD Vance is going to be remembered, I think from this campaign for more than anything else.”
“A man who wrote a book on Catholicism stood behind that ad,” Christie emphasized. “It’s a disgrace.”