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Jilly_in_VA

(9,854 posts)
Sun Mar 20, 2022, 04:41 PM Mar 2022

Ohio Senate Candidate Appears To Call Opponent 'Pussy' At Forum

Republican Senate primary candidates Mike Gibbons and Josh Mandel stunned Ohio audiences Friday night when the two got in each other’s faces at a forum and Mandel appeared to call Gibbons a “pussy.”

“You’re dealing with the wrong guy,” Mandel, the race’s evangelical-backed candidate, appeared to say after a heated exchange about Gibbons’ business interests in China, seemingly mumbling under his breath: “You watch what happens. Pussy.”

Mandel’s campaign denied it was Mandel who used the slur, citing a different video purporting to show Gibbons uttering the word.

Meanwhile, Gibbons’ campaign spokeswoman Samantha Cotton said, “It was Mandel” who said the word. In a press release after the forum, Gibbons denounced Mandel as “unhinged, unfit and flailing — because he’s losing.”

Making the incident all the more disturbing, the two men are the current front-runners in the primary to replace Republican Sen. Rob Portman, who is retiring. It underscores just how intense Ohio’s primary has gotten and the extreme plays the candidates are willing to make to get Donald Trump’s attention. (The former president was famously caught on tape saying that as a celebrity he could he do anything he wanted with women, including “grab ’em by the pussy.”)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/josh-mandel-mike-gibbons-ohio-senate-republican-heated-exchange_n_623511dae4b0d39357c7faaa
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Schoolyard namecalling now?

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Ohio Senate Candidate Appears To Call Opponent 'Pussy' At Forum (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Mar 2022 OP
Nyuk, nyuk. dchill Mar 2022 #1
Who you callin' pussy, pussy !! King_Klonopin Mar 2022 #2
Thought you meant called him a Putin Wild blueberry Mar 2022 #3
It's a bit frightening how quickly they can neutralize incriminating video NullTuples Mar 2022 #4

NullTuples

(6,017 posts)
4. It's a bit frightening how quickly they can neutralize incriminating video
Mon Mar 21, 2022, 01:34 PM
Mar 2022

...with projection, via doctored video.

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