VIDEOS: Amy Acton slurs speech, gets confused during campaign appearances — ‘He’s flying in a Jeep!’

Amy Acton is going viral for all the wrong reasons.

Clips of the Democratic gubernatorial nominee seemingly mistaking a private jet for a Jeep went viral and appeared to be an attempted dig at her Republican opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy.

“Not in a big Jeep flying over like Ohio’s a fly — I mean in a big jet. He’s flying in a Jeep,” Acton said in the clip, filmed at a campaign event in Toledo and surfaced by investigative journalist Laura Loomer.

“Truth and justice, I just wrote on the word — word back here,” Acton, the former director of the Ohio Department of Health who quit amid the COVID-19 pandemic, appeared to say in a second clip. “That is — I am honored to be here…”

Amy Acton @amyactonoh just confused a Jeep with a jet:

“Not in a big Jeep flying over like Ohio’s a fly—I mean in a big jet. He’s flying in a Jeep.”

Earlier tonight, Amy mispronounced Toledo and forgot what she was saying mid sentence.

Um, is Amy drunk again? https://t.co/qJUGsl7yl9 pic.twitter.com/dzSf9EYXST

— Loomer Unleashed (@LoomerUnleashed) October 29, 2026

The clips even drew attention from The Babylon Bee, a conservative-leaning satire site.

A second clip of Acton in Cincinnati also circulated on social media.

“I hope you did like our little garbage ad,” Acton said in the second clip, filmed at a rally in Cincinnati, making a gesture that was widely ridiculed on social media. “I said, throw that out.”

Acton has faced questions about her carefully cultivated public persona, most of which have been brushed off by the mainstream media. Questions have centered on her performance as the state’s health director and on two police callouts to her home.

“Amy Acton quit, and sadly, when many of us had loved ones, our mothers and our fathers and our grandmothers and our grandfathers, spending their last days here on Earth, and we asked for the grace to be able to surround them with the comfort and the love that they deserved, Amy Acton denied us that opportunity,” Senate President Rob McColley, R-Napoleon, said during a campaign stop in Circleville, referencing Acton’s policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“And rather than come up with a solution for those families all across the state of Ohio, Amy Acton quit,” McColley, who is running for lieutenant governor alongside Ramaswamy, added. “And most recently, when Vivek Ramaswamy challenged her to a debate on the conservative news giants of CNN and NBC, Amy Acton said she wouldn’t debate. Well, I have news for you, everybody: If you can’t debate, you can’t lead this state.”

Ramaswamy’s campaign released an ad featuring Acton’s estranged mother, Donna Arthur, who called her daughter a “liar” and said she is unfit to lead the Buckeye State. Ramaswamy faced criticism for the ad following allegations that Arthur’s husband and Acton’s stepfather, Cledith Arthur, abused Acton and her brother.

Police responded to Acton’s Bexley home in 2013 after her teenage daughter called authorities, worried that her parents “were going to get into some type of altercation,” according to a police report.

According to a police report, first reported by Ohio.News, Acton’s then-16-year-old daughter returned home from a party intoxicated. Acton notified the girl’s father — her ex-husband, Douglas Beech — who later arrived at Acton’s home.

The daughter “apparently did not like this and thought her parents were going to get into some type of altercation,” according to a police report. “Both parents said they were fine and there was no altercation whatsoever.”

The 2013 call predates an August 2019 police call, in which police responded to a reported “domestic dispute” at Acton’s Bexley home while married to her second husband, Eric Acton, while allegedly drinking.

Bexley police wrote in their report that Acton allegedly pulled a mirror off the wall, “shattering the glass,” when she “became upset” because she felt her husband “was antagonizing her,” NBC News reported.

The police report, obtained by NBC, indicated that Acton told the officers that she had been drinking, had taken an unknown amount of prescription drugs, and was about to drive away in her car. Her husband, however, apparently convinced her it was a bad idea.

When a medic at the scene suggested that Acton go to a hospital, she “refused,” NBC News reported. Officers eventually concluded that there wasn’t any evidence of physical violence between Acton and her husband, only a “verbal argument over her extended work hours.”

While the 2019 call received mainstream media coverage, the legacy media has largely ignored the 2013 call.

The 2019 call happened while Acton headed the state’s health department. However, she apparently did not inform her boss, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who has covered for Acton’s COVID decisions throughout the campaign.