Olivia Rodrigo clearly expressed her support for Democratic Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton when she made a show of presenting her with flowers at one of his recent concerts.
Acton has shared a video on them Instagram Rodrigo ran to the politician to present him with pink flowers while his fans recorded the meeting. A day earlier she also appeared on stage in a T-shirt that read ‘Amy Acton for Governor.’
Rodrigo performed to promote Acton’s campaign during his concerts at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio on Thursday and Friday.
Acton, 60, is facing a tough race with unsuccessful 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, 41.
In the clip, which was soundtracked to a studio version of Rodrigo’s Stupid Song, the singer wore a sleeveless pink tutu as she walked down a guarded walkway to greet Acton, who was standing against a barrier.
The 23-year-old hitmaker – who recently called out President Donald Trump for using her song in a ‘weird’ video – smiled from ear to ear as she handed Acton matching pink flowers, before leaning in for a hug.
Olivia Rodrigo, 23, clearly expressed her support for Democratic Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton when she made a show of presenting her with flowers at one of his recent concerts.
Acton shared a video of Rodrigo on her Instagram running up to the politician to present her with pink flowers. Rodrigo performed to promote Acton’s campaign during his concerts at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio on Thursday and Friday.
The day before she appeared on stage in a T-shirt that read ‘Amy Acton for Governor’.
The clip then showed a background view of the venue’s giant Jumbotron stage, showing Rodrigo and Acton embracing.
As the singer returned to the stage, Acton turned to the camera and smiled slightly while waving flowers to her fans.
‘So grateful to @oliviarodrigo for his support! Thank you for using your voice to inspire the new generation. He captioned the post, ‘It’s time to build a brighter future in Ohio.’
This comes after Rodrigo criticized the Trump administration for using his song in one of its videos.
After the Department of Homeland Security linked his song All-American B**ch to a video glorifying immigration enforcement raids, he commented on the post, writing, ‘Never use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda.’
he also told npr: ‘It was terrible to see a song I wrote being trapped in the misogynistic box that we put women in…being put into these bizarre, brutal scenes of ICE raids.’
Amid widespread media coverage of ICE raids in Los Angeles, she criticized the Trump administration’s immigration policy on her Insta Stories in June.
‘I have lived in LA my entire life and I am deeply troubled by these violent deportations of my neighbors under the current administration,’ wrote Olivia, who grew up in Temecula, California, about 85 miles from Los Angeles.
Without immigrants LA would not exist. “It is appalling to treat hard-working community members with so little respect, empathy and due process,” he said.
In the clip, which was soundtracked to a studio version of Rodrigo’s Stupid Song, the singer wore a sleeveless pink tutu as she walked down a guarded walkway to greet Acton, who was standing against a barrier.
‘So grateful to @oliviarodrigo for his support! Thank you for using your voice to inspire the new generation. “It’s time to build a brighter future in Ohio,” Acton captioned the post.
‘I stand with the beautiful, diverse community of Los Angeles and immigrants across America. I stand up for our right to freedom of expression and freedom to protest.
Last November, the Team Trump TikTok account posted a video celebrating his election victory and used Olivia’s song Deja Vu in the background.
A screen-grab of a comment purportedly posted by Olivia, which read: ‘Oh, never use my voice again,’ is going viral, but the comment turned out to be fake.
In contrast, Rodrigo was a supporter of the Biden administration, visiting the White House in 2021 to promote its COVID-19 vaccination policy to her young fans.
She appeared in a variety of videos for the government, one of which was one in which she and COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci read out their ‘fan tweets.’
Posting an Instagram photo of herself with Joe Biden, she emphasized that she was ‘absolutely honored to visit the White House today and chat with @potus about the importance of vaccination!’
In the summer of 2024 he also endorsed Kamala Harris’ presidential run, sharing a video of the then-Vice President discussing abortion rights at a rally.
Making her feelings about the candidate clear, Olivia — herself a longtime advocate of abortion rights and contraception — posted four raised hands emojis.
Supporting Democratic politicians and policies is nothing new for Rodrigo.
Supporting Democratic politicians and policies is nothing new for Rodrigo. In 2021, Rodrigo met with President Joe Biden during a visit to the White House
This comes after Rodrigo criticized the Trump administration for using his song in one of his videos; Trump sees 2025
Rodrigo angrily called out DHS and the White House in the comments section of the post: ‘Never use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda.’
In August, the songstress criticized Trump for signing legislation defunding Planned Parenthood before her performance at the all-female Daisy Chain Fields festival.
Acton is in a tight race for governor of Ohio, in which his Republican opponent has aired a controversial ad in which he enlists Acton’s own mother to accuse him of being a lifelong liar.
But the brutal ad backfired and Ramaswamy’s faltering campaign was mired in controversy as details of Acton’s long-standing estrangement from his mother, 82-year-old Donna Arthur, resurfaced.
Acton’s stepfather, Cledith Arthur, was accused of raping her in 1978, when she was only 12. But his mother denied his allegations and accused him of being a liar at the time.
According to contemporary newspapers, four years earlier, Arthur had been accused of incest due to allegations involving his daughter Christine. Christine died in 2024 at the age of 66.
After Arthur’s first court appearance, Acton’s mother abandoned him and fled to Ohio. pennsylvania With Arthur after his indictment.
Apparently the police were never able to locate Arthur after that and he died in 2004.
According to court records, he pleaded innocent but fled Ohio and never stood trial.
Ramaswamy’s controversial ad was dealt another blow when the Daily Mail revealed last week that Acton’s long-lost half-sister has come forward to say she believes Acton’s story about his turbulent childhood, saying the candidate’s claims about sexual abuse by her stepfather and tent-dwelling family are true.
The 62-year-old Youngstown, Ohio, family member, who requested that her name be withheld, is the biological daughter of Claudeth ‘Bud’ Arthur, who married Acton’s mother, Donna, in 1975.
Acton is in a tough race against 41-year-old Republican Vivek Ramaswamy for Ohio governor. His campaign has faltered after a controversial ad, which included him calling Acton’s estranged mother a liar; Acton was seen in Marietta, Ohio on September 17
The ad backfired after information about Acton’s separation from his mother came to light. Acton accused her stepfather of incest in 1978 when she was 12, and her mother fled with her father to Ohio to avoid the trial, abandoning her daughter – whom she falsely described – in the process.
Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy joins other Republicans at a rally for the annual Circleville Pumpkin Show in Circleville, Ohio last Friday.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail from the veranda of her modest home in this old steel town and crying at times, the woman said that, before marrying Donna, Cladith Arthur had raped her late sister, Christine, when she was the same age as Amy.
The woman said, ‘Yes, he raped her and it happened more than once.’
The controversial ad began airing around October 20, in the final days of a hotly contested November 3 election, when Ramaswami was seeking to defeat Acton, a physician and former Ohio state health director.
In the minute-long video, Donna Arthur, now 82, tells Ohio voters that her daughter can’t be trusted. (Arthur previously gave a lengthy interview to the pro-life organization Operation Rescue in 2020, in which he said that Acton’s claim that she turned around 18 times in the first 12 years of her life was not true and that Amy had lied. He also indicated that Amy’s allegation that Cledith raped her, as well as Christine Arthur’s similar claim, were ‘baseless.’)
“It’s not easy for a mother to say this, but Amy has a serious problem,” Arthur says in the video.
‘She lies about her past. She says she grew up living in tents. None of this is true. He has lied his whole life.
Arthur urged voters not to elect his daughter, whom he has not seen since 1978.
While he was not mentioned in the ad, Ramaswami acknowledged that his campaign produced it and pledged $4 million to promote it, despite criticism from members of his own party.