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The most brutal political ad you've ever seen in your life drops in the Ohio governor race as Democrat Amy Acton's mother urges voters not to vote for her liar daughter. Then the Pope has his lung, half of his lung, removed after doctors find cancer. And Elon Musk wants to give your kid part of his company. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

Welcome back to the show. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat candidate in Michigan, freaks out on a voter at a town hall who asks him if he will disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. Unfortunately for Abdul, the exchange is just shedding more light on his very real connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. We'll get to all of that in a minute. First, though, forget about Michigan. Forget about Michigan. Let's turn to Ohio. I have been in and around politics for a long time. I worked on my first political campaign, a congressional race, when I was what, 19 years old, something like that. I first became politically aware when I was six years old, campaigning around my first grade classroom for Bob Dole. I begged my mother not to vote for Clinton, to vote for Dole. I pulled the lever myself. I've been into politics for a long time. I have never in my life seen a political ad like this. This is Democrat gubernatorial candidate from Ohio, Amy Acton. She's running against Vivek Ramaswamy. It's a very tight race. It's statistically tied. And here in the October surprise, what, a week, two weeks before the election, Amy Acton's mother cuts a political ad urging voters not to vote for her liar daughter.

Donna Arthur (3:22)

My name is Donna Arthur and I'm Amy Acton's mother. I work to Children and Family Service Association, building one of the first two sexual abuse programs in America. I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent, it's not easy for a mother to say this, but Amy has a serious problem. She is a liar. She lies about her past. She says she grew up living in a tent. None of that is true.

She's lied her entire life. My daughter needs help and she can't help you if she needs help herself.

People can change, but first they have to tell the truth. And my daughter still isn't doing that. Don't vote for people who lie. Don't let her become your governor. If you think she'll make your life better, you're fooling yourself. It will only get worse.

SPEAKER_3 (4:23)

Oh my goodness.

Michael Knowles (4:26)

My skin is crawling as I watch the video. It's so, so brutal. So let's be as fair as we possibly can to Amy Acton. Amy Acton has for a long time said she had this horrible upbringing and her mother lost custody of her when she was 12 years old and she claims and neglect and abuse. And she says she grew up in a tent for part of her upbringing. And the problem with those claims, Amy Acton has been pretty consistent in her political career. The problem with those claims is there's not a lot of evidence for them. I'm not saying that it isn't true. I'm just saying there's not a lot of evidence for them. There's not a lot of court records. There's not a lot of convictions or really even solid accusations. And so when the mother comes out and says, hey, Amy's just been lying about this forever. There was clear, the parents were divorced. There was some nasty family dynamics, no question about it. But the mother comes out and says, hey, my daughter is lying, not just about me, but is lying about her upbringing. And not only has she told lies, she is a liar, which is devastating. I mean, that is a devastating label to have put on you if you are in politics, if you're in business, in your personal life. It's not to say, oh, you screwed something up. Oh, you have a bad idea. Oh, you're politically radical. Those all can kind of be fixed. But if someone is just thoroughly dishonest, if you catch someone in a blatant lie or multiple blatant lies, it totally destroys trust. It totally destroys your credibility. It is the most brutal claim you can make about a politician, because a politician is someone who has the public trust. As Edmund Burke writes, you elect your representatives not just for this policy or that policy, but for their judgment because you trust them to represent you. And so, I'm trying to be as charitable as I possibly can be to Amy Acton. What is she going to say in response to this?