SANTA FE, N. M. – Candidates for an open career in the United States Senate presented conflicting views on long-term physical care, police methods, and civil rights struggles in the campaign’s first public debate, broadcast live on the local television network on Monday.
Retired Democratic Senator Tom Udall approved federal Rep. Ben Ray Luzhn’s six-term best friend as his successor, while former Republican television meteorologist Mark Ronchetti promises to chart a more conservative political path and has approved federal intervention to law enforcement.
Candidates chose their own places for the debate, amid the coronavirus outbreak at the White House and a recent positive checkup at the governor’s mansion in Santa Fe. Ronchetti participated from the television studio, Luzhn chose his cross-working place in Albuquerque and libertarian Bob Walsh spoke. from his home in Santa Fe.
Ronchetti described his ambitions as a newcomer to politics, eager to negotiate compromises in Washington, D. C. He made little or no mention of Republican President Donald Trump, while rebuking Luzhn for emerging on the professional scale of Congress to promote economic and educational opportunities in New Mexico.
“What’s in Washington doesn’t paint for New Mexico,” Ronchetti said, “and if we keep sending the same people back, they’ll get the same results. “
Luzhn provided his for Congress by the Affordable Care Act that expanded the fitness insurance policy in New Mexico and his federal investment history for defense facilities and water infrastructure projects in the Navajo Nation.
“It was leading me to protect others with pre-existing diseases, because a cancer diagnosis didn’t lead to bankruptcy or the loss of their home,” he said.
In the face of his beyond praise for Trump’s pandemic reaction, Ronchetti said, “Knowing what we knew, we have made the best we can go. “He praised the United States for china’s restrictions and early efforts to manufacture more assisted breathing apparatus. .
Regarding efforts to expand a new pandemic aid program, Luzhn warned that another $1,200 direct bill circular was needed to taxpayers, as well as an injection of federal resources into public schools to reopen classrooms safely.
Ronchetti said corporations will receive promises of responsibility for coronavirus lawsuits.
“You don’t have to worry about frivolous processing, ” he said.
Ronchetti has stated that a House financial aid bill would allow violent offenders to get out of jail. Luzhn brazened the statements as lies.
Amid questions about the long-term promises of civil rights and racial equality, Ronchetti said police reforms on the use of force are derailing partisanship, raising languid proposals from Black Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina. Said.
The Democratic House and the Republican-led Senate have been stuck over police procedures and liability reforms, in a new tone since the May death of George Floyd, a black guy who died in Minnesota after a white officer had a knee opposite his neck. .
A bill passed through the House would prohibit strangulation suspensions and arrest warrants in drug cases with new criteria for pursuing consequences for police misconduct. by your door.
Luzhn accused Republicans of opposing the law to end wage discrimination against women and stressed that the law protects LGBTQ rights.
“We will have to regain this ethical compass and be leaders as we were before President Trump,” Luzhn said.
One moderator asked applicants to support Roe v’s annulment. Wade, the 1973 U. S. Supreme Court ruling that established the right to abortion across the country.
Ronchetti said that “it’s a very difficult question to answer just because you don’t know what the case will be. “
Luzhn stated that Roe v. Wade is “the law of the country and will not have to be annulled. “He warned that customer fitness care coverage was at stake in the Supreme Court’s confirmation of the successor to the late liberal judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Walsh stated that Roe v. Wade is based on the absolute right to privacy and will likely remain in the future. He suggested that the basic electorate replace the libertarian vote.
“We threaten to waste it here – other people have the right, the duty to update the government or update it if it doesn’t meet their needs,” he said.
The absentee vote begins Tuesday in the state that has a fully Democratic delegation in Washington, D. C. New Mexico has supported a Republican in the Senate since 2002, and Trump lost New Mexico in 2016 to Hillary Clinton by 8 percentage points.