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Josh Mandel

Republican candidate for Senate in Ohio. 3 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2021 to 2022. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.

Josh Mandel, Ohio politician

“The federal government spent over $500k trying to force fish to exercise on treadmills, an additional $150k to see if gingerbread houses are earthquake proof.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: Washington spent about $3,400, not on testing gingerbread houses, but on a workshop about earthquake resistant design. The fish experiment was about the emergence of life on land millions of years ago.