Senate bid, said Friday he wouldn’t accept an invitation from the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters to debate Democrat Cheri Beasley, as the two head for a presumably close general election. Ted Budd skipped four Republican primary debates in his U.S. Other Senate contests are playing out similarly. This week, Warnock said he would participate in that debate, if Walker agreed to another forum Warnock wants. Walker repeatedly proclaimed his eagerness to face off with Warnock in the fall but, instead of agreeing to Warnock’s challenge to three debates, accepted an invitation to a different one altogether.
“Usually if you’re hiding, you’re hiding for a reason.” “If you can’t get on the stage and debate fellow Republicans, how the heck are you going to debate with Raphael Warnock in the general election?” Latham Saddler, a Navy veteran and former Trump administration official who was among five Republicans challenging Walker, asked. The Republicans whom Walker refused to debate ahead of Georgia’s primary critiqued him as ill-prepared to take on Warnock, a skilled orator. Refusal to participate can draw ire from rivals. “You’re getting that in one shot,” Wukela said, of a debate appearance being worth airtime that would otherwise cost millions. In addition to winning candidates thousands of impressions in earned media and repackaged video clips, debate footage can also propel candidates’ messages far more broadly - and cheaply - than could television ad buys, said Michael Wukela, a South Carolina Democratic media consultant and veteran of Vermont Sen. But in more competitive states, Sullivan said, a debate can serve as “a good way to find out where candidates are on the issues.” “That kind of turned the race on its head for the next three months,” Sullivan said, noting headlines he characterized as “DeMint wants to fire gay teachers.”ĭeMint went on to win the open seat by nearly 10 percentage points, a margin typical in recent South Carolina statewide elections. In what “should have been the most boring debate in the history of mankind,” Sullivan said that a 2004 panelist questioning DeMint and Democrat Inez Tenenbaum asked DeMint if he agreed with a state GOP platform tenet in opposition of openly gay teachers in South Carolina’s public schools. “And in stump appearances, press conferences, they can evade, they can dodge.”Īnd sometimes, Sullivan added, it’s the media coverage of what happens onstage, rather than the back-and-forth itself, that can make a bigger impression. Jim DeMint’s 2004 bid in South Carolina and handled media for Florida Sen.
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“They’re not going to do it in their TV commercials,” added Sullivan, who managed GOP Sen. Some Democrats, including Hobbs, have pointed to raucous GOP debates from the primary season as a reason to avoid tangling with their opponents.ĭespite such skepticism, veteran political consultant Terry Sullivan defended debates as “the one forum where candidates are forced into answering questions that they don’t want to answer.” For some Republicans, eschewing debates is a chance to sidestep a media structure some in the party deride as biased and align with Donald Trump, who has blasted presidential debates. With the fall campaign rapidly approaching, the time-honored tradition of televised debates as a forum for voters to evaluate candidates may be the latest casualty of constant media coverage and powerful digital platforms, as well as the nation’s polarized political climate. And in Arizona, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Katie Hobbs has declined a televised debate with Republican Kari Lake.
Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker are still working through the details of what a debate might look like, though they appear to be inching closer to a deal. (Columbia, S.C.) - Under pressure from his Republican rival, Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman said this week he would participate in one debate before the November election. With the fall campaign rapidly approaching, the time-honored tradition of debates as a forum for voters to evaluate candidates may be the latest casualty of the nation’s polarized political climate. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Now, it’s time to find better ways to interact with you and ensure we meet your high standards of what a credible media organization should be.įILE - The debate stage is set ahead of the start of the second and final presidential debate Oct. The days of journalism’s one-way street of simply producing stories for the public have long been over.
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