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The debate, at times tense, comes as Tester is the last remaining Democrat to hold high office in Montana. The Senate race is likely to determine the balance of power in theHere are the takeaways from the latest debate between the two candidates ahead of Election Day.Tester and Sheehy debated over the role the federal government should play in the housing crisis, veterans affairs, and healthcare.
“If this particular initiative should pass, it’s the law of the land, and certainly, I’ll respect it. But the reality is, at some point, we have to protect the life of the child. He could be the next Albert Einstein, the next Michael Jordan, the next Jon Tester for all we know,” Sheehy said.that would protect abortion access means that he supports “abortion up to and including in a moment of birth.” Sheehy’s claim is not supported within that legislation.
However, Tester sought to distance himself from the Biden administration’s immigration policies, saying, “I’ll be the first to tell you President Biden has not done a good job on the southern border.”“We had a solution — it was there. It could still be passed,” Tester said. “It could have been passed six or eight months ago, but the bottom line is Tim, before it was even released to read, said, ‘Nope, not going to support that’ because his party bosses told him that’s what he needed to do.
“That set off a domino chain of weakness that led us to the path of chaos we are on today, from Israel to Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, where we’re seeing China make moves that were unthinkable just 20 years ago,” Sheehy said.Char-Koosta News “That gathering was in a backroom of about, I don’t know, five dozen people there, but the reality is yeah, it was insensitive,” Sheehy said. “I come from the military, as many of our tribal members do. You know we make insensitive jokes and probably off-color sometimes, and you know, I’m an adult. I’ll take accountability for that.”
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