The 2026 campaign is getting ugly — especially on the right | CNN Politics
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If this year’s ugliness pays off for the GOP, it’s likely to get a lot worse moving forward.
President Donald Trump, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Vice President JD Vance
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Any campaign that involves Donald Trump is bound to get pretty ugly. The 2024 campaign was marred by the now-president and now-Vice President JD Vance falsely claiming Haitian migrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets.
But the 2026 campaign is getting really ugly — especially on the Republican side.
Morality aside, the question is whether that ugliness is a sign of sound GOP strategy or of desperation. It seems to be a large helping of the latter.
