According to The Hill, President Trump engaged in a vigorous back-and-forth on Friday with NBC reporter Monica Alba after he was "tripling down" on an ad in the Ohio governor's race. The report said reporters asked Trump about fellow Republicans who had denounced the ad, which was created by Vivek Ramaswamy, the GOP candidate for Ohio governor.
The Hill's summary said the ad features the estranged mother of Democratic nominee Amy Acton calling her a liar. The summary of the exchange ends mid-sentence, so the rest of that account is not reflected here.
CBS News, in a video report with Olivia Gazis, said that an ad released by Ohio's Republican gubernatorial candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, has drawn bipartisan backlash. Its headline states that Trump and Vance defend the ad and that Obama campaigns with Amy Acton.
The two accounts differ in emphasis. The Hill's summary centers on the exchange between Trump and a reporter and describes the critics as fellow Republicans, while CBS News describes the backlash as bipartisan and reports the defenses offered by Trump and Vance. Neither summary provides the substance of those defenses.
The full texts of the two reports were not reviewed for this story, so it rests on their headlines and summaries. The available summaries include no statement from the Ramaswamy or Acton campaigns, and they do not describe the ad's content beyond the points noted above.
Sources: The Hill: Trump spars with NBC reporter over Ramaswamy attack ad; CBS News: Trump, Vance defend controversial Ramaswamy attack ad; Obama campaigns with Amy Acton.