{"id":112569,"date":"2024-10-10T15:24:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T08:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112569"},"modified":"2024-10-10T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T08:24:19","slug":"ruben-gallego-and-kari-lake-square-off-in-sharp-edged-arizona-senate-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112569","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Gallego and Kari Lake square off in sharp-edged Arizona Senate debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">PHOENIX \u2014 Republican Kari Lake and Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego faced off in Arizona\u2019s feisty first and only Senate debate Wednesday evening, trading shots over the border, abortion, tax policy and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The barbs started before the moderators even asked a single question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe are at a crossroads, Arizona,\u201d Gallego said in his opening statement, highlighting Lake\u2019s repeated election denialism. \u201cWe\u2019re going to see and talk to somebody who has really failed the basic test of honesty.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lake shot back: \u201cTonight, we\u2019re going to watch as somebody tries to reinvent himself. Somebody who used to be a member of the Progressive Caucus, somebody who has destroyed the very congressional district that he has served for the past 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As the candidates bounced from topic to topic over an hour onstage, the answers circled back on a key slice of voters: old-line Republicans and independents who aren\u2019t necessarily comfortable with Lake. Gallego continually referred to his support from prominent Arizona Republicans, while Lake repeatedly brought up former President Donald Trump as she tries to prevent Trump voters from crossing over in the Senate race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cBorder mayors that used to campaign with her are now campaigning with me because they don\u2019t think that she\u2019s serious about this,\u201d Gallego said at one point. He added: \u201cIt seems like Donald Trump doesn\u2019t want to campaign with her anymore, either. He\u2019s not allowing her pictures on any of his billboards. So this is what we\u2019re seeing right now, a candidate that could only talk but doesn\u2019t actually produce results.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lake, who name-dropped Trump several times throughout the debate, quickly replied.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cPresident Trump, my good friend, has called me \u2018border Kari,\u2019\u201d Lake said. \u201cI love the nickname, and I\u2019m going to go there to Washington, D.C., and help him build that border wall and secure the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A massive campaign bus parked outside the debate had a large image of Trump and Lake together with large print touting his endorsement of her. Campaign signs across Phoenix also feature photos of Lake and Trump, reading, \u201cTrump endorsed!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gallego, in contrast, didn\u2019t mention Vice President Kamala Harris by name during the debate. In an interview with NBC News earlier in the week, he said he was running \u201cindependently\u201d of Harris. He hasn\u2019t attended most of her campaign events and visits to the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The issues looming large throughout the race have been immigration and border security, a central topic for Arizona, which shares its southern border with Mexico. On Wednesday evening, those topics were once again in the spotlight as the moderators spent nearly half of the 60-minute debate on the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cA community that doesn\u2019t have border control is not a country,\u201d Gallego said when he was asked whether he supports open borders. \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lake\u2019s rebuttal focused on Laken Riley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/suspect-laken-riley-killing-indicted-murder-kidnapping-peeping-tom-cha-rcna151254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 22-year-old college student alleged to have been killed by an undocumented immigrant in Georgia<\/a>, to drive home the importance of the border. \u201cWe want to be able to go for a jog in the morning like Laken Riley did and not have to worry about being killed, raped and murdered,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lake reiterated her position in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/kari-lake-ruben-gallego-let-rip-fiery-criticisms-ahead-arizona-senate-rcna174376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview this week with NBC News<\/a>, saying she didn\u2019t support any component of the bipartisan border security bill \u2014 and falsely claiming that the legislation \u201csent $115 billion overseas to kill people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe senators were not bipartisan,\u201d Lake said misleadingly of the trio largely behind the bill. The bipartisan legislation was negotiated by retiring independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema \u2014 whose open seat Lake is vying for \u2014 along with Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and GOP Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lake has long made the border a cornerstone of her campaign, chastising Gallego for supporting the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s immigration policies. Gallego, in turn, has made the bipartisan border bill that Trump and Lake opposed a big part of his campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe compromise bill that was supported by Border Patrol, and Kari Lake, for still no reason she can explain it, she can\u2019t explain it, why she was against the bill,\u201d he fired back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At the halfway point, the moderators shifted the discussion to abortion. With early voting already underway in the state, Arizonans will vote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/arizona-abortion-rights-advocates-pour-15-million-ballot-measure-ad-bl-rcna172930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 139, a proposed state constitutional amendment<\/a> that would enshrine abortion rights through fetal viability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gallego brought up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/kari-lake-gets-flack-both-sides-abortion-navigates-arizona-law-rcna147574\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lake\u2019s flip-flop<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/arizona-senate-repeal-abortion-ban-rcna150024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona\u2019s since-repealed 1864 abortion ban<\/a>, which would have banned all abortions with no exceptions for rape or incest. \u201cShe said it was a great law,\u201d he said, noting Lake\u2019s comments about the 1864 ban during her 2022 bid for governor. During her Senate bid, Lake came out against it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI want to make sure UVF is protected,\u201d said Lake, most likely referring to in vitro fertilization or IVF, a fertility treatment that has become the latest front in the political battle over reproductive rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe acts like he cares about us,\u201d Lake said of Gallego, \u201cspeaking directly to the women\u201d watching the debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Both candidates have been reminding their would-be constituents for months about each other\u2019s past. For Lake, it\u2019s pinning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/ruben-gallego-redefines-seeks-senate-promotion-arizona-rcna146568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gallego to his progressive past<\/a>. For Gallego, it\u2019s highlighting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/kari-lake-declines-defend-statements-defamation-suit-filed-arizona-ele-rcna145216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lake\u2019s ardent election denialism<\/a> after the 2020 presidential race and the 2022 race for governor, which she lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Asked to say \u201conce and for all\u201d that she lost her race, over which she launched unsuccessful lawsuits, Lake instead referred to a previous question about Arizona\u2019s water crisis and said, \u201cCan I talk about water?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After the debate, the Lake campaign sent several surrogates to tell reporters that she &#8220;won&#8221; the debate and appeared strong, while Gallego appeared &#8220;weak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">Talking to the media immediately after the debate, Gallego said: \u201cShe needs to be loud, she needs to lie because she\u2019s weak. That\u2019s it. The weaker you are, the louder you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/ruben-gallego-kari-lake-square-sharp-edged-arizona-senate-debate-rcna174378\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Republican Kari Lake and Democratic Rep. 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