Ohio state treasurer wins GOP Senate nomination

Mandel

Asso­ci­ated Press

COLUMBUS — Ohio Trea­surer Josh Man­del has eas­ily won the Repub­li­can nom­i­na­tion for U.S. Senate.

The 34-year-old Marine vet­eran pre­vailed in a six-way GOP pri­mary that included an ortho­pe­dic sur­geon, a clin­i­cal phys­i­ol­o­gist and polit­i­cal event orga­nizer whose wide-ranging resume included stints as an autoworker, model and real estate agent.

The first-term trea­surer was heav­ily favored to win.

He has already raised $4 mil­lion in his bid to unseat Demo­c­ra­tic incum­bent Sher­rod Brown in the fall. Brown is a for­mer con­gress­man and Ohio sec­re­tary of state with a pro­gres­sive fol­low­ing around the state.

Ohio Democ­rats have lobbed accu­sa­tions at Man­del all year, includ­ing that he has neglected his trea­surer duties for his Sen­ate campaign.

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