Josh Mandel

Long ago, before J.D. Vance started doing his best to sound like every other MAGA candidate in the country, he had an ear for a metaphor.Reflecting on how heroin and prescription opioids had ravaged his home state of Ohio, Vance worried…

Ohio GOP Senate candidate JD Vance leads the Republican primary field in a new Fox News poll released Tuesday, an indication that he’s enjoying a boost from a late endorsement from former President Trump. Vance, the author of…

Embarrassing doesn’t cover it. Offensive is better. The sad sacks duking it out (almost) to grab the…

Candidates in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race convened for two debates at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio Tuesday. Credit: Courtesy of Joshua A. Bickel/Ohio Debate Commission Intraparty tensions flared Monday as candidates in…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOIO) - U.S. Senate candidates Mike Gibbons and Josh Mandel exchanged words and went nose-to-nose with each other during a forum Friday night.The event, sponsored by Freedomworks, brought Gibbons, a private businessman…

MANSFIELD, Ohio – Ohio's crowded Republican Senate race has been all about one man: Donald Trump.But with less than two months until the state's May 3 primary to succeed retiring Sen. Rob Portman, some of the leading candidates have…

Josh Mandel is testing the bounds of Ohioans’ appetite for a fervently right-wing, populist message in his bid to win the state’s rapidly approaching Senate GOP primary.  Mandel, a former state treasurer waging his third Senate campaign,…

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Bernie Moreno should have been a contender. Instead, he has dropped out of the race for Ohio’s Senate seat after spending millions of his own money and never reaching even fifth place in polls of the Republican primary. It’s a story with…

TOLEDO, Ohio — Jason Kander says he met Josh Mandel back when he wasn’t Josh Mandel.In Kander’s telling, Mandel called him up out of the blue a decade or so ago to pitch a project. It made sense why. The two men had similar profiles:…