A Republican congressional candidate shaved nearly a decade off his age on a dating website, according to a report Monday.
Pennsylvania state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie messaged women on Tinder in March 2020 claiming to be 29 years old, when he was actually 37, reported the Daily Mail.
"Always down for a good time!" read his Tinder profile, according to screenshots. "Outgoing, funny and enjoy traveling, skiing, trying new restaurants and getting drinks with friends."
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Macenzie, who had married since online dating, was born August 3, 1982, according to his House biography.
He ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2018 and is now locked in a tight race with incumbent Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) in one of the most evenly divided congressional districts in the country.
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Mackenzie has represented the Lehigh Valley in the statehouse since 2012, and he was appointed by former president Donald Trump to serve on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Local Government Advisory Committee and as a commissioner on the President's Commission on White House Fellowships.
His mother, state Rep. Milou Mackenzie, has served in the state legislature since 2020 and supported Trump's efforts to overturn his election loss in the state, which her son also justified as similar to a football coach challenging a referee's call on the field.
“Donald Trump had the right to make that challenge and offer those claims,” Mackenzie said. “When it was not proven in the court of law then, that’s kind of the end of those claims, but you do have a right.”
