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"No office is worth stooping that low": Obama takes on Ramaswamy's Acton ad

CNN's short clip from a Cleveland rally catches the former president quieting the crowd's boos and turning to what he calls basic decency.

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‘No office is worth stooping that low’: Obama condemns Ramaswamy’s controversial ad

Barack Obama brought the Ohio governor's race to a Cleveland stage on Saturday and aimed his remarks at one campaign ad. CNN's clip of the moment has drawn about 236,000 views in its first six hours, the most of any new video on the channel since yesterday.

The ad comes from Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican candidate, and features the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton. Obama never says Ramaswamy's name in the clip. "In recent days, we've seen there is no line he will not cross," he says, "no low he will not sink to, to try to get in the limelight."

When the crowd starts to boo, he stops it with a line he has used at rallies for years: "Do not boo. There's a decency that we should expect out of our public officials." He then asks how standards of behavior fell far enough for anyone to run such an ad, and ends with the line CNN uses as its title: "no office is worth stooping that low."

The ad has stayed in the news for days, and it has mostly been argued over by Ohio Republicans and the candidates themselves. This clip adds the most prominent Democrat yet to weigh in, speaking in person to Ohio voters with the election on November 3. CNN also posted a second clip from the same rally, in which Obama turns to President Trump's renovation projects and compares the result to Saddam Hussein opening a Cheesecake Factory.

The comment section filled quickly, with more than a thousand comments in those first hours. Many repeat his "don't boo" line back to him.

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The facts

Channel: CNN
Subscribers: 20,000,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 139,409,262
Channel views, pace per day: 19,107,997 (on a normal day: 17,991,817)
Video published: October 24, 2026
Video views so far: 236,578 (less than a day online)

The numbers

A 40-second clip from a single rally became CNN's most watched new video in a matter of hours.

subscribers

20,000,000

▲ 100,000 in the last 7 days

total views

22,058,139,059

views per day

19,107,997

typical day: 17,991,817

the video

views

236,578

likes

5,632

comments

1,186

days online

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

20,200,000

20,000,000

19,900,000

15,500,000

13,800,000

12,700,000

As of October 25, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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