The Republican candidate for Ohio's U.S. Senate seat, state Treasurer Josh Mandel, said that a tracker for a Democratic super PAC, made "physical contact" first during an incident in an elevator last week.
Mandel, who is challenging Sen. Sherrod Brown (D), said during an event Tuesday that he and Joe Vardon, a Columbus Dispatch reporter, both remember Mandel grabbing the tracker's video camera, but that the tracker recalls it differently. The tracker, identified as Tyler Hansen, 24, works for American Bridge 21st Century and follows Mandel around the state with a video camera for the group.
"Joe and I have a different recollection [than Hansen]," Mandel said Tuesday in remarks captured on video by Dix newspaper chain. "[Hansen] made initial physical contact which is inappropriate."
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