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Ohio, @JoshMandelOhio is a proven fighter!Join us for a Faith & Freedom Rally in: Dayton on this Friday:https://t.co/eZR96m5yQdAnd on Saturday join us in:Toledo:https://t.co/NWhrRiTnxSColumbus:https://t.co/2nNPsImnsxAnd Cincinnati:https://t.co/p2BG7pGZdJ— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 28, 2022

Trump-endorsed Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance explains why he was endorsed by the 45th President and is the best candidate to carry out the America First agenda - Via Newsmax's 'National Report.'

Josh Mandel, once the flamboyant conservative frontrunner for the nomination who now looks threatened by the Trump-endorsed J.D. Vance, dished to GOPers in Washington that at least part of his absurd, extreme campaign rhetoric … is an act.From the book:Mandel, acknowledged to Republicans in Washington that he was parroting absurd rhetoric in the primary campaign out of a desire to court Trump and his supporters — but that was simply what he believed it would take to win.”In fact even as he publicly mimicked Trump’s incendiary rhetoric, Mandel would privately reach out to McConnell’s top lieutenants to alert them each...

With the Trump family squarely in the camp of J.D. Vance, running for U.S. Senate in Ohio, Donald Trump Jr. shared a video of Vance’s main opponent lying about his involvement with “establishment Republicans.” “Ohio friends – Meet the real @JoshMandelOhio. The Club for Chinese Growth backed establishment candidate in the #OHSen race,” Trump Jr. said in a Tweet, sharing the video. In the video, Mandel is first depicted describing himself as something of a political outsider, claiming that he is standing up to the “squishy establishment” GOP. He mentions Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) as one of those “squishy” Republicans....

@DonaldJTrumpJr Ohio friends - Meet the real @JoshMandelOhio The Club for Chinese Growth backed establishment candidate in the #OHSen race. Video...

Donald Trump has made a courageous decision in backing the Hillbilly Elegy author in the Ohio GOP Senate primary. --------- Former President Donald Trump made the most courageous decision of his post-presidency so far by endorsing J.D. Vance for the GOP Senate Primary in Ohio. Vance is an authentic representative of America’s populist tradition, contending against a field of establishment phonies. For the discontent that propelled Trump to the White House in 2016 to be addressed, Vance must find his way into the halls of the Senate. And thanks to Don’s nod, he likely will. A disclosure: Vance and I...

Ohio Republican leaders are calling on President Trump to not endorse J.D. Vance in the state’s Senate primary in a letter that surfaced on Thursday. The letter, which was signed by more than 30 signatories from various county GOP chairs as well as state central steering committee members, cites Ohio Republicans’ support for Trump in 2016 and 2020 and Vance’s past anti-Trump comments. “While we were working hard in Ohio to support you and Make America Great Again, JD Vance was actively working against your candidacy,” the Republicans wrote. “He referred to your supporters as ‘racists’ and proudly voted for...

Mike Gibbons and Josh Mandel get into each other’s faces at tonight’s GOP forum hosted by FreedomWorks.

J.D. Vance, a New York Times best-selling author, is tied for first place in the Ohio GOP Senate primary race, a new poll shows. The Protect Ohio Values PAC poll, released on Wednesday, finds that Vance has gained four points since February — running at 18 percent and tied with fellow Republicans Mike Gibbons and Josh Mandel, who are also at 18 percent. Most significant, though, is that the poll shows Gibbons stagnating with 18 percent after having failed to gain any traction since February, whereas Vance and Mandel have each risen to the top of the pack among the...

They might be right-wingers, but they met in the middle of this stage. Two Republican candidates to represent Ohio in the U.S. Senate nearly came to blows at a debate Friday night. Career politician Josh Mandel called investment banker Mike Gibbons a “p---y” under his breath at the end of the heated exchange. Mandel attacked Gibbons for “making billions of dollars by shipping Ohio businesses to China.” Gibbons shot back that Mandel didn’t understand business because he’d “never been in the private sector in your life.” That brought Mandel, an ex-Marine, out of his seat, as he shouted back “Two...

Mike Gibbons and Josh Mandel lead the Ohio GOP Senate primary field as Republicans battle for the chance to run for the seat being vacated by Sen. Rob Portman (R), according to a poll released Tuesday. The Fox News poll shows Gibbons, an investment banker, leading the field with 22 percent support among GOP primary voters. Mandel, a former state treasurer, trails just behind with 20 percent, a difference that falls within the survey’s margin of error. “Hillbilly Elegy” author JD Vance is in third with 11 percent, followed by former Ohio GOP Chair Jane Timken at 9 percent and...

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) will back former Ohio Republican Party chairwoman Jane Timken as his chosen successor in an attempt to boost her through a crowded GOP field later this year. In a statement released Wednesday, Portman said Timken would be the candidate best positioned to keep his seat in Republican hands in the midterm elections. “I believe Jane Timken is the best candidate to advance conservative Republican policies to help Ohio workers and families. Jane is smart and hard working, and understand the needs of Ohioans,” Portman said. “I am confident in her ability to win both the primary...

Politicians in the United States and around the world condemned the Canadian government after it announced it would use anti-terrorism laws to quell a peaceful protest of its own citizens. “We are broadening the scope of Canada’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules, so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use,” said Canadian deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland at a press conference yesterday. “These changes cover all forms of transactions including digital assets such as cryptocurrencies.” “The illegal blockades have highlighted the fact that crowdfunding platforms and some of the payment service providers they use...

@HotlineJosh #OHSEN: Gibbons releases campaign internal showing him with a commanding lead: Gibbons 23 Mandel 11 Vance 9 Timken 8 Dolan 6 Second Ohio poll — the other was an independent survey — showing him up. Pollster said he’s leading with both Trump Rs and “traditional Republicans”

Morgan Harper [D] and Josh Mandel [R], two U.S. Senate candidates in Ohio, faced each other in a debate Thursday moderated by Cassie Young, managing director at Matter News, a nonprofit news organization, and Daniel Wolvin, state director at Awake America Ohio, a religious organization focused on politics. The debate, which was held at North Columbus Baptist Church, started energetically as the candidates discussed hot topics involving the environment, the natural rights of American citizens and racial equity, among other topics. When the candidates received a question about the growing fossil fuel industry, Mandel expressed his support for that movement....

It doesn't get any better in the U.S. Senate race where former party state chair Jane Timken, perennial right-wing candidate Josh Mandel and author J.D. Vance are fighting over who is the most Trumpian. Ohio State Sen. Matt Dolan jumped into the race, giving the anti-Trump forces an outside shot if the others split their vote. It'll be interesting to see if retiring Sen. Rob Portman — who didn't stand up to Trump for four years — will show political courage now that he’s not facing voters. It’s not much better in neighboring Pennsylvania, where the leading Republican U.S. Senate...

Retired Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman traded jabs with Ohio Republican Josh Mandel on Saturday over President Joe Biden's plans to resettle tens of thousands of Afghanistan refugees in the U.S. following the troop withdrawal.... ...Mandel, a former Ohio state Treasurer and Marine veteran running for the U.S. Senate in 2022, called Vindman a "liar and traitor" on social media after Vindman's wife, Rachel Vindman, criticized his opposition to the resettlement of Afghan refugees. "You are a fool looking for attention," Alexander Vindman tweeted in response. "You don't represent Jewish values. You preach hate for refugees, when your own ancestors came...

Josh Mandel, who announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate Feb. 10, said he backs a unified Israel and denounced anti-Semitism. Mandel, 43, named his two grandfathers – Holocaust survivor Josef Friedman and U.S. Army Air Corps veteran Harold Mandel – as role models, along with his drill sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served two tours of duty in Anbar Province, Iraq. “I’m the candidate in a race who is going to Washington to pulverize the uni-party,” he told the Cleveland Jewish News Feb. 10. He defined the uni-party as “the cabal of Democrats and Republicans who...

Former Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel told WKYC President Trump won the 2020 election and time will prove him right. Josh Mandel is running for Senator of Ohio in 2022.

The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) offers our warmest congratulations to the Jewish Republicans who won their races yesterday in the important election of 2014. We are especially delighted that Lee Zeldin won his congressional race in New York’s first district, making him the Jewish Republican in the 114th U.S. Congress. We are also pleased that the Jewish Republicans in state offices around the country won their reelections. Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens, Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel, South Dakota State Senator Dan Lederman, Texas State Representative and House Speaker Joe Straus and Texas State Representative Craig Goldman all won reelection....