Mandel

His first engagement was to a Democrat — a Democrat who would work as an advance consultant and associate on Obama’s campaign and in his White House. But now, at 30 years old, in the summer of 2008, Mandel got married — in Jerusalem to…

BEACHWOOD, Ohio — In the fall of 2016, Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign was pressing Ohio’s young state treasurer, Josh Mandel, to step it up. A former Marine, he held some sway with Republican voters, and Trump aides wanted him…

Donald Trump may have his sights set on endorsing a wealthy unknown Ohio Republican whose Senate campaign isn't hyper-focused on the former president, in lieu of his other GOP allies in the race.Matt Dolan, unlike other Ohio GOP Senate…

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,…

One of Josh Mandel's final edicts as state treasurer was to allow Ohio businesses to pay their taxes with bitcoin. Taxpayers could put cryptocurrency into a third-party processor that converted it to dollars and deposited the money into…

HUDSON, Ohio — On his way to winning the Ohio treasurer’s office in 2010, Josh Mandel aired a TV ad suggesting his opponent had ties to a mosque — a misleading attack quickly condemned for its anti-Muslim tone.Mandel, then 33 and…

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:…

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