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brooklynite

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Thu Oct 13, 2022, 11:08 PM Oct 2022

Attacks and insults fly at final Wisconsin Senate debate

Source: NBC News

MILWAUKEE — Sen. Ron Johnson and his Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes traded attacks and personal insults in a heated Senate debate Thursday night that focused heavily on crime, gun violence and economic issues.

The hour-long debate, held at Marquette University in Milwaukee, was the second of two showdowns between the candidates ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

At various points, both candidates responded to questions from the moderators by lobbing attacks — sometimes wholly unrelated to the topic at hand — at each other. The tenor of the insults peaked toward the end of the evening, when Johnson was asked to talk about one thing he admired about his opponent.

“I appreciate the fact that Lt. Gov. Barnes had loving parents, a school teacher, his father worked the third shift, so he had a good upbringing,” Johnson said. “I guess what puzzles me is with that, with that upbringing, why has he turned against America?”


Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/attacks-insults-fly-final-wisconsin-senate-debate-rcna52200

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Attacks and insults fly at final Wisconsin Senate debate (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2022 OP
Johnson is a hideous person. AllyCat Oct 2022 #1
That's when either Barnes or the moderator would ask him to define his terms Warpy Oct 2022 #2

Warpy

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2. That's when either Barnes or the moderator would ask him to define his terms
Thu Oct 13, 2022, 11:50 PM
Oct 2022

as in "Give an illustration about how Gov. Barnes has turned against America, so we know that's not just another empty slogan."

Letting these vicious cretins get away with this kind of shit is something we can't do any more. We don't have that luxury.

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