U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly defended a Republican campaign advertisement for the Ohio governor's race on October 23 (local time) in which a mother publicly attacks her Democratic candidate daughter, calling it a "completely fair attack."

Speaking to reporters at the White House before departing for Florida, President Trump emphasized, "She said her daughter is a disaster. She said her daughter is a liar. And she felt she had an obligation to say that to herself. She also said her daughter lied about her opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy."

The ad mentioned by President Trump was produced by the campaign of Ramaswamy, whom Trump endorsed. In the commercial, the mother of Democratic candidate Amy Acton appears and criticizes her, saying, "As a mother, it's not easy to say this, but my daughter is a liar."

As reports emerged that Acton suffered various forms of abuse, including sexual abuse by her stepfather during her childhood, and was separated from her mother and stepfather at age 12 as a result, the ad has faced backlash for "exploiting a mother who inflicted trauma on her young daughter in an election."

However, President Trump said, "If I had an ad like that, I would have been very lucky," adding, "I don't know about things that happened a long time ago (such as the stepfather's abuse), but what I do know is the fact that a mother came on TV and said her daughter should not become the governor of Ohio."

The previous day, President Trump also stated on his social media platform Truth Social, "A daughter whose mother talks like that usually doesn't hold public office, let alone become governor," and added, "I told them to keep running the ad so everyone can hear the mother of a flawed, dishonest, and incompetent candidate explain what a disaster her daughter is."

Ohio is one of the battleground states for the November midterm elections.

In the election to choose a successor to U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who previously served as a federal senator from the state, Republican candidate Jon Husted is struggling against Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown.

In the gubernatorial race, candidate Acton is also assessed to be leading candidate Ramaswamy.

In addition, aiming at Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate race in another battleground state of Michigan, President Trump fiercely criticized him as a "jihadist belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood (an Islamist group)" and a "vicious and violent" person.

President Trump's claim that candidate El-Sayed belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood is a unilateral assertion by his rival, Republican candidate Mike Rogers.

Candidate El-Sayed has stated that he was never a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and does not support the group.

President Trump attacked the Islamic faith of El-Sayed, an Egyptian-American, saying, "I call him Mohammed. His middle name is Mohammed," and asserted, "He's a petty fraud, everything about him is fake. He's a liar."

When mentioning former Democratic President Barack Obama, President Trump also habitually emphasizes his middle name, calling him "Barack Hussein Obama."