The ad highlights Mandel’s courting of evangelical voters by touting “Christian values.” “But he’s Jewish. Everybody should know that though, right?” Pukita said at a forum.
“There are a lot of people who had been enthusiastic supporters of Josh who now wonder what happened to him,” said a member of the Republican Jewish Coalition’s board of directors.
A federal Special Counsel report said Pompeo, and 12 other senior Trump officials including Jared Kushner and David Friedman, had violated the Hatch Act.