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In Ohio, a conservative stronghold,
as the Republican gubernatorial candidate (an Indian-American named Mara) began to lose ground, the Democratic candidate's biological mother aired a campaign ad attacking her own daughter.
However, the Democratic candidate had been sexually abused by her stepfather as a child, and the biological mother was someone who had stood by and enabled it.
Trump praised this advertisement, but it caused an uproar across the United States, being condemned as a malicious and immoral campaign tactic.
The Republican Party tried to distance itself late in the game, but the situation resulted in Republican support declining not just in Ohio, but across the entire United States.