"I won’t normalize somebody who has said that my childhood is something I’m just complaining about."

Said Amy Acton, explaining why she won't debate Vivek Ramaswamy, quoted in "Attack Ad Featuring Candidate’s Mother Turns Ohio Governor’s Race Even Uglier/A Republican ad features Amy Acton’s estranged mother calling her daughter a liar. The two have not spoken since Dr. Acton’s mother backed her husband after his arrest on rape charges" (NYT).

You've probably seen the ad with Acton's mother, the worst ad I've seen in a long time. It's an ad in a unique category of badness. 

Here's a response from Acton's brother.

ADDED: Trump spoke out: "I hear the mother went very rogue on the daughter, doesn’t have a lot of respect for the daughter, and I think the mother is a witness to things, so who knows? It’s a very unusual situation to have a mother hate a daughter that much, but I don’t think that has anything to do with Vivek."

That was after J.D. Vance had said: "I’m a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans across the country who are whining more about that advertisement than they are about what the congressional Democrats and other Democrats want to do to the United States of America. So I would say to Ohio Republicans, do you actually think that Amy Acton is unfit to serve as governor of the state of Ohio? I do."

I got the quotes from this NYT article.