U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her Republican challenger, John Deaton, battled in a fiery debate Tuesday night, clashing over abortion rights, the economy and immigration.
With polls showing Warren holding a strong lead in the race, the televised debate, sponsored by WBZ and The Boston Globe, gave Deaton a chance to introduce himself to Massachusetts voters in his long-shot bid to oust the incumbent Democrat.poor in the Detroit area before attending New England College of Law and joining the Marines. This past winter, he moved from Rhode Island to Massachusetts to announce his run for Senate.
"There's only one extremist on this stage tonight and it's Elizabeth Warren. I'm the moderate, centrist, common-sense candidate," he said. Warren hit back, pointing out the bill was dead-on-arrival in the U.S. House — and suggested Deaton is the extremist for embracing former President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric. And she said a Deaton victory could hand Republicans control of the Senate and set back efforts on climate, health care and gun control, while moving the country a big step closer to a nation-wide abortion ban.
Deaton says he's pro-abortion rights, and if elected, would support a federal law to protect them. It's one of the ways he's trying to thread the political needle in— casting himself as a moderate Republican willing to shake things up as he tries to unseat a popular blue-state Democrat with a national profile. In Tuesday night's debate, he accused Warren of living in a"partisan political world," where all Democrats are great, and Republicans are bad.
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