It is one of the most closely watched Senate races
across the country.
Republican Carrie Lake taken on Democratic Arizona Congressman Ruben Gallego.
Tonight, the candidates squared off for 60 minutes on the
debate stage.
Their one and only debate in this cycle, hitting on
several key issues including the border, abortion and the economy
are Lindsay Regas and Kenzie Beach.
They were at the debate tonight and they join us
to break down some of these responses.
So, guys, thank you for being here.
Let's start with the big one, the border.
Yeah, yeah.
John and Ellen, the candidates, spent about 30 minutes debating
immigration and border security.
Ruben Gallego says a border wall is important to a
security package, but it also has to be coupled with
technology, manpower and laws.
When we talk about Republican Carrie Lake now, she brought
everything back to the border tonight, saying that this is
the single most important issue that Arizonans are facing.
And right now, we know that we have terrorists that
are coming through.
We're worried about a potential terrorist attack on our home
soil.
We want to be able to go for a jog
in the morning like Lake and Riley did and not
have to worry about being killed, raped and murdered.
And we're not safe because of the people that have
come in.
Ruben Gallego has empowered the cartels.
I want to finish the border wall on day one.
My first piece of legislation will be to fully fund
and expedite the construction of the border wall.
And I have voted for border walls in the past
and actually hundreds of miles with the border walls because
we're appropriate with the proper manpower and staffing.
It does work.
What doesn't work is when you put a border wall
without the manpower and without the actual laws that you
need to implement behind it because it doesn't end up
being of any use and just costing us more money.
So This is why we focus on things such as
the border security bill, right?
Something that's extremely important as a comprehension the most conservative
Republicans and Democrats to make sure that we brought some
effort on the topic of abortion.
The candidates are disagreeing on whether it should be a
federal law or left up to the states to decide,
but codify row.
It is absolutely important that my 15 month old daughter
has less rights and control of her body than her
mother and then her grandma.
The fact that we have women that are now going
to sepsis just so they could get a life saving
abortion.
We have women that are traveling with their daughters that
are victims, victims of rape, out of state so they
could get an abortion.
A 10 year old baby girl, victim of incest had
to leave her home state and the Comforter family to
get an abortion.
We have the choice as Arizona's to decide what our
abortion law will be.
It's going to be up to us.
And we're going to decide in November when we go
and cast our ballot.
And Ruben Geiger wants to take that choice away from
us.
He wants to take it back to the federal government
in some backroom with Chuck Schumer and decide what our
abortion law will be here in Arizona.
It's going to be up to us.
I want us to have that choice and whatever the
law ends up being, whatever our choice ends up being,
I will respect another big issue, the economy, inflation and
how our Arizonans are going to afford basic necessities.
The things I want to do is secure the border.
When you have 20 million people and we're competing for
goods and services with people.
It's a basic supply and demand.
But we also have to work to bring down the
cost of everything and we have to make sure that
we're not printing money and bringing inflation up.
There's only one entity that can create inflation, that is
the government.
They have pushed for more spending, more spending, more spending,
and that means more printing of money.
And that's why your dollar is only worth $0.75 today.
It was worth a dollar under President Trump.
It's only $0.75 under Pamela Harris.
First of all, the minimum wage should be $15.
And it should be pegged to inflation.
So it actually keeps moving up #2 you fight inflation
by actually looking at how you bring down costs.
Number one, we have a big opportunity right now.
We need to stop the merger of the grocery stores
in Arizona.
All right?
So right after the debate, each candidate had an opportunity
to take 15 minutes with media.
Ruben Gallego was the first one in the media room
and only took a few questions from specific media outlets.
Now, we did not see or hear from Carrie Lake
after the debate, but her team came out, spoke on
her behalf, making it clear that they're taking tonight as
a major win.
But Carrie Lake, they talked about her having a press
conference tomorrow that she'll take questions there.
She is voting early in person in Scottsdale and expected
to take questions then.
OK.
Yeah, they covered a lot tonight.
Yeah, they did.
And it was it was contentious at times.
Yeah, definitely.
We saw and Gallego talked about that a little bit
after he said that Carrie Lake was navigating her questions
by kind of taking digs at him.
But, you know, it depends who you ask.
And we also want to ask Carrie, like, the same
question.
But of course, she did not come back to that
media room to speak with us.
OK.
Microphones were not muted, which.
No.
Right.
They were not.
Yeah.
There's a lot of overlapping going on, guys.
Thanks.
Appreciate it.