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New Mandel ad slammed as false by Brown campaign
Ohio Senate candidate Josh Mandel (R) is airing a new statewide ad starting Tuesday that frames the race as a competition between a cost-cutting Washington outsider and career politician Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).
The ad features clips of Mandel working as state Treasurer as a voiceover recounts his successes in the position, including cutting the state budget and getting Ohio a AAA credit rating — an accomplishment that the Brown campaign pushed back against, pointing out that the state's had the highest credit rating possible since 1995. Mandel also touted receiving a "Watchdog of the Treasury" award, which Brown's campaign has called misleading because Mandel received it before he became treasurer.
Brown's campaign hopes that the ad, which aims to showcase Mandel's accomplishments as treasurer, will backfire, as well as further underscore what they've characterized as his loose relationship with the truth.
"He can't open his mouth without lying," Brown campaign spokesperson Sadie Weiner said of Mandel.
But Mandel's campaign stood by the ad, attacking Brown's focus on what his campaign has characterized as falsehoods as a distraction.
"Because Sherrod Brown can’t run on his record of failure and lack of results in Washington, he has attempted to distract voters from Josh’s accomplishments and mislead them about his own," said campaign spokesperson Nicole Sizemore.
Mandel is challenging Brown in a race swimming in contributions from outside groups, one of the most expensive in the country, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. But the most recent poll gives Brown a double-digit lead over Mandel, and the Real Clear Politics average of polls puts the incumbent ahead by more than 7 percentage points.
The Hill rates the Ohio race as leaning Democratic.
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