Josh Mandel Could Be Ohio’s Next Senator. So What Does He Believe?

One night late last month, here inside a Baptist church, the leading Republican candidate in this state’s Senate primary cast not just this race but life itself as a protracted struggle between dark and light.

The occasion was a stunt of a debate not with anybody from his own party but a long shot Democrat. She wasn’t one of the enemies he was focused on the most.

He called Black Lives Matter activists “thugs.” He called “the transgender movement” “insane.” He called Covid-19 “a bioweapon manufactured by the Chinese Communist...