Ryan Mackenzie dodges questions on lying about his age on Tinder by 8 years

State Rep. Ryan Mackenzie dodged questions about his Tinder profile on NewsNation on Monday. Mackenzie was caught lying about his age by more than 8 years during the pandemic.

Just over two months out from the November election, State Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Lehigh) spent part of his Monday in an interview getting repeatedly asked about misrepresenting his age in his Tinder profile.   

The Daily Mail reported earlier this year that Mackenzie, who is challenging Congresswoman Susan Wild (D-Lehigh) in the Lehigh Valley this November, lied about his age on Tinder by eight years, claiming he was 29 when he was actually 37. 

“Look, that’s what the Democrats like to do,” Mackenzie said in an interview. 

“They like to talk about basically anything except their failed policies. I mean, the people are sick and tired of high prices, a wide open border chaos around the world. Anything they can do to distract from those topics, they will take that opportunity.”

“We see what they’ve done to [JD Vance.] They’ve done it to Donald Trump for years. They do it to every candidate who they know is in a position to defeat one of their radical far-left candidates.”

After the story broke in June, over 100 women from the Pennsylvania 7th Congressional District signed a letter demanding an apology from Mackenzie for lying about his age. 

“Trolling on Tinder for younger women is one thing (we can’t help but notice that you fudged your age by nearly a decade), but doing so while you are actively serving on the Pennsylvania State Legislature is another. To make matters worse, you never took accountability for the lie, you just denied that you were married or engaged at the time,” the letter read at the time.  

Mackenzie was given the opportunity to respond to the letter on NewsNation and claimed that most of the signers were “Democrat operatives.”

“When you look at that list, most of them are Democrat operatives. Real big thing that the Democrats do is they put together these lists,” Mackenzie said.

However, after looking through the list of women who signed the letter and searching for their occupations online, only a handful of co-signers were local elected officials, Democratic staffers or somehow connected to politics by volunteering for various causes. 

An overwhelming majority of those who signed the letter were professionals who work outside of politics.