Olivia Rodrigo made her support for Democratic Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton explicit when she made a show of presenting her with flowers at her recent concerts.Acton shared a video on her Instagram of Rodrigo rushing up to the politician to present her with pink flowers while her adoring fans recorded the meeting. The day prior she also appeared onstage in a t-shirt that read ‘Amy Acton for Governor.’Rodrigo made the display to boost Acton’s campaign during her concerts at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday and Friday.Acton, 60, is running neck-and-neck with failed 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, 41.In the clip, which was soundtracked to the studio version of Rodrigo’s Stupid Song, the singer wore a sleeveless pink tutu as she rushed 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 ‘grotesque’ video – grinned ear to ear as she handed the matching pink flowers to Acton, before they leaned in for a hug. Olivia Rodrigo, 23, made her support for Democratic Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton explicit when she made a show of presenting her with flowers at her recent concerts Acton shared a video on her Instagram of Rodrigo rushing up to the politician to present her with pink flowers. Rodrigo made the display to boost Acton’s campaign during her concerts at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday and Friday The day prior she appeared onstage in a t-shirt that read ‘Amy Acton for Governor’The clip then cut to a view of the venue’s massive jumbotron stage backdrop showing Rodrigo and Acton hugging.As the singer rushed back to the stage, Acton turned to the camera and showed a soft smile while holding up her flowers for her fans. ‘So grateful to @oliviarodrigo for her support! Thank you for using your voice to inspire a new generation. It’s time to build a brighter future in Ohio,’ she captioned the post.It comes after Rodrigo blasted the Trump administration for using her song in one of their videos.After the Department of Homeland Security paired her song All-American B**ch with a video glorifying immigration enforcement raids, she commented on the post writing, ‘don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda.’She also told NPR: ‘It was just so awful to see a song that I wrote about being trapped in a misogynistic box that we put women in … being put to these grotesque, cruel scenes of ICE raids.’She previously slammed the Trump administration’s immigration policy on her Insta Stories in June, amid widespread media coverage of ICE raids in Los Angeles’I’ve lived in LA my whole life and I’m deeply upset about these violent deportations of my neighbors under the current administration,’ wrote Olivia, who grew up in Temecula, California, about 85 miles from Los Angeles.’LA simply wouldn’t exist without immigrants. Treating hardworking community members with such little respect, empathy, and due process is awful,’ she added. In the clip, which was soundtracked to the studio version of Rodrigo’s Stupid Song, the singer wore a sleeveless pink tutu as she rushed down a guarded walkway to greet Acton, who was standing against a barrier ‘So grateful to @oliviarodrigo for her support! Thank you for using your voice to inspire a 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 with immigrants all across America. I stand for our right to freedom of speech and freedom to protest.’Last November, the Team Trump TikTok account posted a video celebrating his election triumph and used Olivia’s song Deja Vu in the background.A screen-grab quickly viral of a comment supposedly posted by Olivia reading: ‘ew don’t use my sound ever again ty,’ but the remark turned out to be fake.By 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.Amid the variety of videos she appeared in for the government 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 gushed about having ‘had the absolute honor of visiting the White House today and chatting with @potus about the importance of getting vaccinated!’In the summer of 2024 she 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 emoji.Rodrigo is no stranger to supporting Democratic politicians and policies. Rodrigo is no stranger to supporting Democratic politicians and policies. In 2021, Rodrigo she met with President Joe Biden while visiting the White House It comes after Rodrigo blasted the Trump administration for using her song in one of their videos; Trump seen 2025 Rodrigo leapt into the comments section of the post by the DHS and the White House, fuming: ‘don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda’In August, the songstress blasted Trump for signing a law defending Planned Parenthood ahead of her performance at the all-woman Daisy Chain Fields festival.Acton has been in a brutal race for Ohio governor in which her Republican opponent has aired a controversial ad in which he enlisted Acton’s own mother to accuse her of being a liar for her entire life.But the brutal ad ended up backfiring and engulfing Ramaswamy’s floundering campaign in controversy as details of Acton’s longtime estrangement from her mother, 82-year-old Donna Arthur, resurfaced.Acton’s stepfather, Cledith Arthur, was charged with raping her in 1978, when she was just 12, but her mother denied her allegations and accused her of being a liar at the time.Four years earlier, Arthur had been charged with incest over allegations involving his daughter Christine, according to contemporary newspaper accounts. Christine died in 2024 at 66.After Arthur first appeared in court, Acton’s mother abandoned her and fled Ohio for Pennsylvania with Arthur after he was indicted. Arthur was apparently never located by police after that, and he died in 2004.He had pleaded not guilty but fled Ohio and never stood trial, according to court records.Ramaswamy’s embattled ad took another blow when the Daily Mail revealed last week that Acton’s long-lost stepsister has come forward to state that she believes Acton’s account of her turbulent childhood, saying the candidate’s claims about sexual abuse by her stepfather and the family living in a tent are true.The 62-year-old Youngstown, Ohio, family member, who asked that her name be withheld, is the biological daughter of Cledith ‘Bud’ Arthur, who married Acton’s mother, Donna, in 1975. Acton has been in a brutal race for Ohio governor against Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, 41. His campaign has floundered in the wake of a controversial ad in which he enlisted Acton’s enstranged mother to call her a liar; Acton seen on September 17 in Marietta, Ohio The ad backfired after details of Acton’s estrangement from her mother surfaced. Acton accused her stepfather of incest in 1978 when she was 12, and her mother fled Ohio with her father to evade trial, abandoning her daughter – whom she called a liar – in the process Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy joins other Republicans at a rally at the annual Circleville Pumpkin Show last Friday in Circleville, OhioSpeaking exclusively to the Daily Mail from the porch of her modest home in this old steel town and sometimes breaking down in sobs, the woman said that, prior to marrying Donna, Cledith Arthur raped her late sister, Christine, when she was about the same age as Amy.’Yes, he raped her, and it was more than once,’ the woman said. The controversial ad debuted around October 20, in the final days of the tightly-contested November 3 election as Ramaswamy seeks to defeat Acton, a physician and former Ohio health director.The minute-long video features Donna Arthur, now 82, telling Ohio voters that her daughter cannot be trusted. (Arthur previously gave a lengthy interview to the pro-life organization Operation Rescue in 2020, in which she said that Acton’s claim that she moved 18 times in the first 12 years of her life was not true and that Amy lied. She also indicated that Amy’s allegation that Cledith raped her, as well as Christine Arthur’s similar claim, were ‘unfounded.’)’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 a tent. None of that is true. She’s lied her entire life.’Arthur urges voters not to elect her daughter, whom she has not seen since 1978.While he was not mentioned in the ad, Ramaswamy acknowledged that his campaign produced it and committed $4 million to promoting it, despite criticism from members of his own party.