Alex Tabet is a 2024 NBC News campaign embed.
PHOENIX — Republican Kari Lake and Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego faced off in Arizona’s feisty first and only Senate debate Wednesday evening, trading shots over the border, abortion, tax policy and more. The barbs started before the moderators even asked a single question. “We are at a crossroads, Arizona,” Gallego said in his opening statement, highlighting Lake’s repeated election denialism. “We’re going to see and talk to somebody who has really failed the basic test of honesty.
” Lake’s rebuttal focused on Laken Riley, the 22-year-old college student alleged to have been killed by an undocumented immigrant in Georgia, to drive home the importance of the border. “We want to be able to go for a jog in the morning like Laken Riley did and not have to worry about being killed, raped and murdered,” she said.
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