{"id":115982,"date":"2024-10-19T15:08:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T08:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115982"},"modified":"2024-10-19T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T08:08:46","slug":"tammy-baldwin-and-eric-hovde-spar-over-abortion-and-the-economy-in-tense-wisconsin-senate-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115982","title":{"rendered":"Tammy Baldwin and Eric Hovde spar over abortion and the economy in tense Wisconsin 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=\"\">Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican Eric Hovde sparred over abortion rights and economic issues Friday night during their first and only debate of a hotly contested Wisconsin Senate race that has tightened just weeks before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The tenor of the hour-long face-off was mostly civil, but both candidates fired off acidic lines and retorts at times, with Hovde repeatedly accusing Baldwin of lying and Baldwin often accusing Hovde of misrepresenting his positions on an array of issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The most tense moments of the evening came when the two candidates tangled over reproductive rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Following one of many attacks Hovde fired off at Baldwin\u2019s partner, the two-term incumbent hit back, saying, \u201cEric Hovde should stay out of my personal life \u2014 and I think I speak for most Wisconsin women that he should stay out of all of our personal lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Moments earlier, asked whether Roe v. Wade should be made the \u201claw of the land,\u201d Baldwin replied that, \u201ca woman\u2019s rights and freedoms should not depend upon her zip code or state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As they have nationally, Democrats have put the issue at the forefront of politics in Wisconsin, where an abortion ban from 1849 technically took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. While abortion providers in the state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/planned-parenthood-resume-abortions-wisconsin-court-ruling-rcna105087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resumed<\/a> care last year after a judge ruled that the 175-year-old law didn\u2019t apply to consensual medical abortions, the state Supreme Court is <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wisconsin-abortion-ban-lawsuit-planned-parenthood-1518465359ed39a39d38e14a8d97a94e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reviewing<\/a> a separate case seeking to entirely invalidate the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cLook, it\u2019s been brought back to our state,\u201d Hovde said during the exchange. \u201cI believe in the beauty of life \u2026\u00a0 and I agree with exceptions for rape, incest and the health of the mother.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hovde, a GOP businessman who ran unsuccessfully for Senate in Wisconsin in 2012, had previously said he was \u201c100% pro-life\u201d before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/politifactwisconsin\/2024\/02\/21\/eric-hovde-says-voters-should-decide-abortion-supports-exceptions-politifact-wisconsin\/72691409007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changing<\/a> his position during his current campaign to include support for those exceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He then falsely accused Baldwin of having supported abortion rights \u201cup to the point of delivery, where a healthy baby can be born alive and be terminated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThere comes a point in time where a baby can be born healthy and alive, and I think it\u2019s unconscionable to terminate that child\u2019s life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Baldwin responded forcefully, saying, \u201cEric Hovde, that does not happen in America. It\u2019s very clear that he has never read Roe v. Wade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Friday\u2019s debate, which took place four days before the start of early in-person voting in Wisconsin and 18 days before Election Day, comes as the race between Baldwin, who is vying for her third Senate term, and Hovde, a multimillionaire businessman and bank owner, has tightened in recent weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The seat has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/wisconsin-senate-primary-election-tammy-baldwin-eric-hovde-rcna166328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a top priority for both parties<\/a>, given Wisconsin&#8217;s status as one of the country&#8217;s most closely divided battlegrounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Baldwin won her 2012 Senate race by more than 5 percentage points and her 2018 re-election contest by nearly 11 percentage points, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/tammy-baldwin-fights-maintain-appeal-rural-wisconsin-democratic-slide-rcna147901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demonstrating her appeal<\/a> in rural areas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While Baldwin has proven to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/democrats-flooded-cash-fight-congress-gop-stretch-money-rcna175636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strong fundraiser<\/a> and has led in publicly released polling over the last several months, surveys in recent weeks have shown a closer race. Just last week, the nonpartisan Cook Political Report with Amy Walter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/analysis\/senate\/wisconsin-senate\/wisconsin-senate-shifts-lean-democrat-toss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed their rating of the race<\/a> to \u201ctoss-up\u201d from \u201clean Democratic.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">GOP outside groups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/10\/11\/2024\/senate-republican-super-pac-aims-66m-in-new-money-at-wisconsin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have also poured more money into the state<\/a> on behalf of Hovde, who has also contributed millions of his own dollars to his campaign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">During Friday&#8217;s debate, Baldwin and Hovde also clashed on immigration, foreign policy \u2014 including the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine \u2014 and on a long list of economic issues, including child care costs, senior care and drug prices, and Social Security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On the issue of how to extend the solvency of the entitlement program, Baldwin slammed Hovde for wanting to cut federal spending to fund it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe supports spending, just not for you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It was one of several attacks that prompted Hovde to fire off exasperated but sharp responses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cOne thing you\u2019ve perfected in Washington is your ability to lie,\u201d Hovde said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The two rivals also traded barbs over who had stronger Wisconsin credentials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Baldwin and outside Democratic groups have put at the center of some of their most prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/democrats-republicans-senate-contenders-dr-oz-rcna138171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacks<\/a> against Hovde the fact that he\u2019s largely lived in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/daniel-bice\/2023\/05\/15\/possible-wisconsin-senate-candidate-eric-hovde-owns-7-million-dollar-california-home\/70204226007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California<\/a> in recent years, while Hovde has repeatedly attacked Baldwin as an out-of-touch career politician who\u2019s been residing in Washington, D.C., for far too long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI\u2019m supposedly the jerk from California. Yet, I\u2019m born and raised here in this state, spent my last 12 years living where you grew up,\u201d Hovde said during one exchange. \u201cI\u2019m a UW grad, you\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cYes I am,\u201d Baldwin shot back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cLaw school, not undergrad,\u201d Hovde replied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">Baldwin received her undergraduate degree from Smith College in Massachusetts and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Hovde received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/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\/tammy-baldwin-eric-hovde-wisconsin-senate-debate-rcna175606\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Sen. 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