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{"id":27236,"date":"2026-09-22T15:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ohio-stations-ignore-max-millers-legal-threat-run-democratic-challengers-ad\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:45:17","slug":"ohio-stations-ignore-max-millers-legal-threat-run-democratic-challengers-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ohio-stations-ignore-max-millers-legal-threat-run-democratic-challengers-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio stations ignore Max Miller\u2019s legal threat, run Democratic challenger\u2019s ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ohio television stations are so far choosing to ignore a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/09\/21\/congress\/miller-ad-spurs-legal-threat-01085665\" target=\"_blank\">legal threat<\/a> from GOP Rep. Max Miller and broadcast an ad from his Democratic challenger centered on the allegations of domestic abuse Miller faces from his ex-wife.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Miller demanded that Cleveland-area television station WKYC not publish \u201cfalse, malicious, and defamatory statements\u201d in a Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=000001a0-c068-d276-aff6-e16f61530000\" target=\"_blank\">cease-and-desist letter<\/a> first reported by Blue Light News.<\/p>\n<p>WKYC ran the ad Tuesday morning, according to ad-tracking firm AdImpact, as did two other Cleveland stations, WEWS and WOIO.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-second ad from the Poindexter campaign and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee depicts a local sheriff listing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/01\/max-miller-abuse-divorce-gop-01021028\" target=\"_blank\">the accusations levied against Miller<\/a> levied by Emily Moreno, his ex-wife and the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio). Miller has repeatedly denied the abuse allegations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ad mentioned is filled with lies,\u201d Miller spokesperson Abigail Angelos said in a statement. \u201cEach of the statements in the advertisement are entirely unsubstantiated and contradicted by evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for the three TV stations did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Poindexter responded to the legal threat by <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/YZxbRVirHb4?feature=share\" target=\"_blank\">tearing up the cease-and-desist letter<\/a> in a campaign video.<\/p>\n<p>Before the ad, Poindexter had focused his campaign on his working-class background and cost-of-living issues. Now the campaign has gotten intensely personal: The Democrat is on air publicizing Miller\u2019s family dispute, while Miller\u2019s campaign is <a href=\"https:\/\/host2.adimpact.com\/admo\/viewer\/86c1a3c0-ff27-476a-9eaf-d6f5a68dcca8\" target=\"_blank\">lobbing accusations<\/a> about Poindexter\u2019s past run-ins with law enforcement in an ad paid for by the NRCC.<\/p>\n<p>NRCC spokesperson Zach Bannon said in a statement that Poindexter is \u201ccompletely out of touch with Northeast Ohio\u201d and is a \u201clife-long criminal\u201d who is \u201cfully embracing the radical far-left socialist agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Aaron Pellish contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio television stations are so far choosing to ignore a legal threat from GOP Rep. Max Miller and broadcast an ad from his Democratic challenger centered on the allegations of domestic abuse Miller faces from his ex-wife. A lawyer for Miller demanded that Cleveland-area television station WKYC not publish \u201cfalse, malicious, and defamatory statements\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}