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Ohio's Josh Mandel repeats false claim of stolen 2020 election - PolitiFact

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  • Not a scrap of evidence has emerged to support Josh Mandel’s assertion of a stolen election.

  • Multiple investigations in six key states — including reviews ordered by Republicans — have found isolated incidents of fraud, but nothing that comes close to being large enough to have changed the outcome.

Josh Mandel faces at least five competitors for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Ohio. He aims to win by being the most pro-Donald Trump candidate in the field.

Mandel made his MAGA credentials the centerpiece of his speech in Florida at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual go-to gathering of the Republican base.

"I'm the only candidate in Ohio who's willing to say this, and I want to say it to all of you very clearly," Mandel said Feb. 25. "I believe this election was stolen from Donald J.Trump."

Mandel’s words drew a long cheer.

Few presidential elections have been as thoroughly vetted, audited and reexamined as the one in 2020, when Democratic candidate Joe Biden beat Trump.

Not a scrap of evidence has emerged to support Mandel’s assertion of a stolen election.

The Associated Press published one of the most sweeping investigations into voter fraud cases around the country in December 2021, contacting more than 300 local election offices as well as state officials. The AP found fewer than 475 voter fraud cases in six battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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