Albany, thomasville. The candidates are 8 feet apart and as you can see, there is a plexiglas divider between them. We are following cdc recommendations. Here are the rules for tonights debate. Candidates will have 1 30 four opening and closing statements, 1 15 to answer a question when it is posed to both. Candidates can request a rebuttal if they are named or attacked by the candidate in their answer. The candidate will have 45 seconds for a rebuttal. We also have directed questions for individual candidates. 1 15 for aave response. The other candidate will have 45 seconds for comment if they choose to. Rebuttal rules will go into effect. The candidates tonight are republican incumbent david perdue and democratic challenger jon ossoff. 1 34 1 30 first starting remarks. Sen. Perdue my mom and dad were Public School teachers in middle georgia and i grew up working on our family farms. I worked my way through georgia tech and went on to have a Business Career and became a fortune 500 ceo and greeted tens of thousands of american jobs. I never wanted to be in politics , but when bonnie and i decided to get involved, we want you to change the direction of the country and get real results for georgia and from deepening the report to rebuilding our military and Disaster Relief for plant into help this area to getting real covid relief, i think we have done just that. Is trast, jon ossoff as has said he always wants to be in politics. Is pushing a radical is radical socialist agenda. He says one thing in atlanta and another in the rest of georgia. If you believe me, if you look at what he has said in the past that is evidently the truth. Listen to his words. He wentnot tell you why to support defunding the police, open mortar sanctuary cities or white he wants to close two military bases in the state of georgia or why he thinks it is a good idea to take away private Health Insurance from our own employers. The only reason bonnie and i are running for reelection is to continue to help change the direction of the country and to get a real results for georgia. Haveator mr. Also you minute 30 seconds. Mr. Ossoff typical statements. Here with the opportunity to address the people of the state about the direction of leadership for the state, you would not know listening to senator perdue that we are in the midst of a pandemic that is of one million american lives. Senator perdue has not even acknowledged we are in the midst of a crisis that is touched every family. We have lost parents, grandparents, neighbors, so many have been forced out of work, so many lives have been uprooted. We long for normalcy, leaders who are honest with us about threats to our health at a moment when so many of us need a government that serves as by empowering Public Health experts, medical doctors, and scientists to lead the Public Health response in a Public Health crisis. This virus that is accelerating across our country, hospitalizations increasing, nearly 1000 americans dying per date dismissed by senator perdue is no deadlier than the ordinary flu. She told us the risk to our health was low, the impact on our economy would be little and this evening you will hear david perdue talk about everything but this crisis that is toward this country apart. With theeek to deflect false accusations but it will not acknowledge the devastation being reached across this country or present a plan to contain his virus. Moderator thank you both for being here tonight. It is our hope and expectation you can show voters in georgia and our families an example of what civil discourse it like and how to engage in passionate yet respectful debate. We thank you both in advance of that. We are joined by a live panel who will ask questions. It is made up of journalists that serve viewers all across georgia. The Panel Includes don baker, rogers,gotche, richard wallace. Ltz, and jim we want to go for a first question. Lets go to john baker dawn baker. The first question goes to both candidates. Despite america having far more time to prepare for the coronavirus, the covid19 virus has taken a greater toll on her virus. What is your analysis of americas response and to look at what is happened and see a serious this virus can be would you change anything . Ossoff. R mr. Mr. Ossoff protecting American People as a core function of our government and nurses and doctors like my wife who Practice Medicine in Metro Atlanta and have been doing their jobs to save lives and keep people safe. Epidemiologists and scientists who know what they are doing in a crisis like this have been giving their best advice to political leaders to save lives and control the spread of this virus but senator david perdue and others in washington, d. C. Systematically ignored template downplayed, and dismissed it was no deadlier than the flu. What we need to do is empower Public Health experts and medical experts to lead on the response, and we have to do it now because at this virus is not coming away. It is accelerating into the winter months, killed nearly 25 of one million americans and we will lose hundreds of thousands more unless political leaders step up, stop politicizing and downplaying the response i let the Public Health experts lead to keep us healthy, safe, and contained his virus. Moderator senator perdue. Sen. Perdue again we hear idle comments we have heard before. Almost a dozen people in the 8000 people ina, the state of georgia. We all know them. This is been a tragedy of immeasurable proportion. It is easy to look back at the question goes, but one of the things we have to recognize in this virus is the earlier responsibility. China was responsible for this, and we have learned a lot about the virus, who is most vulnerable, what we need to do to protect them. What we have to do is hold china accountable. Jon ossoff will not be the want to do this. And the last two years, he has been working for a Company Owned by the communist chinese government, and in the last debate she denied that. Movingstion tonight is forward, instead of looking back, we have got to get a vaccine, accelerates, and we have done this. We put money behind this accelerating treatment regimens and get the money back into the state. Democrats are blocking the aid we want to bring back to the state in addition to what we have already done. Moderator you were named in that jon ossoff so you get a rebuttal. Mr. Ossoff how about taking personal responsibility . Senator david perdue told us this virus was no deadlier than the ordinary flu. Senator, everybody has been able to watch in real time as this president , this administration and his allies have systematically misled the people about the threat to our health. Take some personal responsibility for what the whole country and a world can of is an abject failure governance. Step up, acknowledge what is been done wrong and chart a course forward, empowering medical experts, putting the cdc based here in atlanta in charge. Let Public Health experts lead, not politicians. Moderator mr. Perdue. Not perdue again he did answer the question or the issue and the real issue is did he work for a company for two years and failed to tell people in his primary filing and turnaround admitted later. Did he work for that company and will he hold china accountable . In the first debate, and he acknowledge he did not work for them. Lets step up. Did you work for that chinese is anist company, tccw Media Company that is owned by the chinese government. , that is on top of working for al jazeera. Moderator jon ossoff i will let you answer that. Mr. Ossoff senator perdue does not want to talk about covid19, a pandemic that is killed nearly 25 of one million americans. Debate spend this entire deflecting from a substantive conversation about the most serious Public Health crisis in generations. He will launch false attacks, make outlandish allegations, repeat the same six words over and over again because it is what his handlers in it washington, d. C. As trading desk trained him to do, avoid responsibility and avoid a substantive discussion of where we go now to contain his virus. Put medical experts and Public Health experts in charge, not failed and disgrace politicians. Moderator we will move on to the next question. Sen. Perdue i think i get a response. He talks about taking responsibility but will not do that. People of georgia. It goes to trust and judgment. If you want someone to represent you in United States and senate, you better hope you can trust them. He misled everyone in the primary. He refiled after the primary was over and now told the legal document he filed he worked for that company even though before he said he did not. If that is confusing, go to my website and you will get that cleared up and you will see why is not he is not answering the question. Moderator we will move on to our next question, even schultz eden schultz. Good evening, this question is for both candidates as well and we want to get back to the pandemic. It has been hard to balance the health and safety concerns with the economic impact. What do you say to businesses and workers struggling, they need to get back to normal because their livelihood is at stake . Moderator senator perdue. Sen. Perdue that is a great question, my question would be to call every democrat because they are blocking the next round of aid for our cares act. We put 2. 9 trillion at work. Here toht 47 million georgia. Another 50 billion for a ppp program that saved 1. 5 million jobs in this state and get jon ossoff opposed the bbb program and still does. He would have voted against that. In the United States senate, we have bills waiting to go on the floor that the democrats are blocking that would bring more aid. Months forouple of immediate helps for the Smallest Companies at that average 103,000 dollars per loan in the state and only 10 employees. These are people that would have lost their businesses to be saved 1. 5 million jobs. She would have voted against it because he is nothing but a rubber stamp for Chuck Schumer. Does it all the time. He is saying things that will disguise his radical socialist agenda. Moderator mr. Ossoff. Mr. Ossoff it is nonsense. I have been advocating for months for renewal of the program, which senator perdue allowed to expire in august. Listen to his answers. It is always the other partys fault, somebody elses phone. No sense of personal responsibility. Lets talk about who is hurting, not senator produce donors. Senators perdue donors. Working parents who cannot figure out how they will afford the house payment and their health care because one of them is out of work. The senate has not delivered foref for georgia families Small Businesses since august. They have been rushing through a Supreme Court nominee who they hope will help them overturn the Affordable Care act and reveal protections for preexisting conditions. sat is senator perdue priority right now, not Financial Relief ordinary people. Senator perdue has been hard at work pushing through a judge in hopes she will roll on a lawsuit she supports to rent Health Care Away in the middle of a pandemic and you voted four times to repeal protection for preexisting conditions. Sen. Perdue can i get a response. I am proud of the fact we voted Amy Coney Barrett and as the ninth justice of the Supreme Court. He would have voted against her just like every single democrat did this week on monday night. That is why i say he will be nothing but a rubber stamp for Chuck Schumer. If you want results, you need to focus on the people of georgia. 10 he has raised in the Third Quarter came from outside the state of georgia. Who will she be accountable to, the people of georgia or the people of california and new york finding this race . Moderator 45 seconds. Mr. Ossoff the question was about Economic Relief for the people of the state. Lets talk about results. Where are the results . Can you answer that question without blaming the other Political Party . Where in august, i was speaking to a young woman just the other day who started a car parking business your procedure mercedesbenz stadium. She was just getting this business off the ground, making good money, beginning to save. She is now out of work, car business is gone, she cannot make the car payment, the house payment. She fears homelessness and she cannot get bbb relief because you let it expire months ago and turned her attention to a judicial process. Sen. Perdue the reason it expired is your compatriots up there, the democrats mr. Ossoff there you go again. Sen. Perdue lets take accountability. We have put bill after bill on the floor that would help give additional aid. At that couldve happened in july and you guys voted down every single time. We also voted for a judge, but that was our responsibility. You wooded voted against Amy Coney Barrett. What is happening right now is on the others that of that we had people like marissa, an Ecuadorian International saved your business. Friendlys restaurant would have lost their business without that up. We need both parties in washington washington, d. C. To come together to get things done. ,oderator lets go to barbara wv tm. On behalf of your constituents in columbus, i would like to welcome you. Thank you for answering our questions. My question is for both candidates, health care is a key issue, especially in a pandemic. How do you plan to ensure everyone regardless of income, job, or preexisting condition has access to Necessary Health care . Ossoff . R mr. Mr. Ossoff this is the most important issue in the midst of this crisis. How could we ensure every georgian as health care they need at a price they can afford . My wife is a doctor. She and her colleagues across how many see every day georgia families struggled to afford health care. It is a source of constant stress for so many georgia families, the outrageous insurance premiums, the outrageous cost of prescription drugs and in the middle of a pandemic that is worsening, a pandemic senator perdue would told us would be no deadlier than the early ordinary flu, in the middle of this historic crisis, senator perdue is still supporting a lawsuit to repeal the Affordable Care act, to repeal protections for georgians with preexisting conditions. Those of us who have asthma, diabetes, Heart Disease, or family members recovering from cancer would stand to lose their Health Policies or be denied coverage if senator perdue has his way. It is wrong. You should put georgia families ahead of the Insurance Companies you work for. Moderator senator perdue. Sen. Perdue lets talk about accountability and responsibility. The reason part of this is in such a mess is before the Affordable Care act in georgia, half of the counties are now minted to one Health Care Insurance provider. We have a bill before the senate, i cosponsored it that would give us protection for preexisting conditions in the event the Affordable Care act is determined by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional. The other thing we have got to do his work on surprise billing and drug cause. That is also a trade issue. We have been working on that. There are solutions to be had. When i come back to in the middle of this pandemic is we have got to hold accountable the people that helped create this pandemic, the country of china. Communist china today is one of our biggest threats. At this meant work for them for two years and he is now not acknowledging he worked for that company. In the last debate he said absolutely not. There is a document, i have it right here, kids july filing where you disclose to the federal government he worked for them. There is a responsibility he needs to own up to. We need somebody in the United States senate to stand up to communist china. Moderator thank you, senator perdue. Mr. Ossoff. Mr. Ossoff this is beneath the office of u. S. Senator. You have continued to demean yourself. First you were lengthening my nose and attack ads to remind everybody that i am jewish. When that did not work, you started calling me some kind of islamic terrorist. Work, youhat did not started calling me a chinese communist. It is ridiculous. You should not do everything your handlers in washington, d. C. Tell you to because you will lose your soul along the way. What the people of georgia deserve is a serious discussion, Economic Relief or georgia families, and how we will protect coverage for preexisting conditions. What georgia needs is a senator that will not lie to them and work for al jazeera, the mouthpiece of terrorism, and communist china. Moderator lets move on to our next question, gene wallace in albany. Gentlemen, you both support the second amendment. Mr. Perdue, you state you would like to enforce current firearm laws. You state you support banning the sale of semi automatic weapons. Can you both explain your sense stance on gun laws and curbing gun violence in america. Moderator senator perdue. Sen. Perdue a similar question today, thank you. First of all, i believe in the second amendment, the first amendment. The nra has been given an 8 has given me an a rating. They have given jon ossoff a rating. While he is all for the second moment, he went to protect our rights, but it was bloomberg buddies and washington, d. C. In california, new york, atlanta, he says something different. Moderator jon ossoff . Mr. Ossoff we have to uphold the sentiment while passing gun safety reforms and that is what i will do in the u. S. Senate. I have purchased and owned firearms in georgia and like most gun owners in the state i recognize guns are illegal and dangerous tools, not toys. We need to gun Safety Measures to protect georgia families from gun violence. I will never forget when i was 12 years old the night before the last day of school one of our teachers was gunned down in atlanta georgia. So many georgia families havent been touched by gun violence. Senator perdue voted against a bill to require a simple universal criminal background check for firearms purchases. Senator perdue is not working for responsible gun owners. Senator perdue is working for firearms manufacturing. At that is who butters his bread, that is who he votes for. Not those of us in the state who would purchase and own and operate and store firearms in a safe manner, but gun manufacturers whose sole objective is to move as many weapons on our streets as possible, even though it avoids Law Enforcement risk, our entire when there is unrestrained flow. Sen. Perdue i am glad to know you are finally concerned about our men in blue. When you stand on the streets of and abolish the police rally and you state you want to support the police, it is one reason 13 democratic sheriffs, democratically elected sheriffs have endorsed me and almost 100 euros across our state because they know i have their back. The fraternal order of police has done the same thing. Gun violence is a tragedy. Admit georgia now at the same murder rate as chicago. It is obviously a much bigger issue, but not supporting the police is a part of the problem in atlanta. Moderator thank you, senator perdue. 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Or you can listen with deep freeze cspan radio app. Moderator welcome back. We will now start the second half of their debate with Georgias Senate candidates, david perdue and jon ossoff. The questions will be more direct to one candidate. At other candidate will get 45 seconds after that to respond if they choose to. We want to go to my first question. Schulzto eden shells. This question is for jon ossoff. In the wake of George Floyds death and of black lives matter, you said funding for Police Departments needs to be on the line. What do you mean by that . How do you balance Public Safety and Police Accountability . Moderator mr. Ossoff . Mr. Ossoff it is not defunding the police. Local departments that apply for federal grants are held to high standards when it comes to constitutional and civil rights. We have it to be honest about the need for criminal Justice Reform in this country. The 14th amendment of the u. S. Constitution guarantees equal protection under the law for every citizen. When a young black man named Ahmaud Arbery shot to death in broad daylight on camera in the middle of the street and local Law Enforcement and prosecutors look the other way, that makes a mockery of equal protection under the law. My first exposure to Public Service was working for congressman john lewis, a man who dedicated his life to championing civil rights, and what we need in this country now is a new Civil Rights Act and leaders who will take that on. After Ahmaud Arbery was killed, the naacp held a peaceful march for criminal Justice Reform and i was there with hundreds of others and so was Bishop Jackson , and what he told me that day it he invited senator perdue to address the people. Not only did he not come, she did not respond to the invitation. Moderator thank you. Senator perdue . Sen. Perdue he projects onto me what you just heard there and does not address the real issue. At the real issue is he says one thing in atlanta and at and abolish the police rally, it is there for everybody to see. That is what is so ironic about this. He will say and do anything to hide this radical socialist agenda the democrats are trying to perpetrate and this is a perfect example. That sounds almost very reasonable what he just said but can you see him standing at and abolish the police rally making the same comments . He did not do that. That is the hypocrisy. As an outsider in this process, that is what i am sick of. Moderator thank you both, next. Uestion, barbara with wvtm this question is for senator perdue. You mispronounced senator call s name Kamala Harris and made light of it. Others claimed it was intentional. What is your response . Sen. Perdue thank you. I absolutely meant no disrespect. I have said that publicly to senator harris. What i was talking about, what i am trying to do is educate the people of georgia about what is trying to be perpetrated here, this radical socialist agenda that jon ossoff will be a rubberstamp for Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi as they perpetrate this outrages agenda on our country. What is in there . Defunding the police come that you heard the doubletalk then. What about open borders . They talk about in their enclave. They talk about sanctuary cities. They want to close two military bases. In 2017, she ripped on the proposition of joint basing, and he thinks it is a good idea to take away our private Health Care Insurance from our employer, 180 Million People will lose their Health Insurance and to be poured onto medicare in a way we cannot imagine. It is the most dangerous i think are talking about. This is that radical socialist agenda i am trying to warn georgians about. Moderator thank you. Mr. Ossoff . Keepssoff he he repeating the same words over and over again. What he does not want to address is this pandemic, how wrong he was, and how he missed lettuce telling us that would be more worse than the ordinary flu and out he is working day and night to rip Health Care Away from his own constituents in the middle of a pandemic. Senator call that you voted four times to reveal protections for georgians with preexisting conditions so that your own constituents with diabetes or asthma or Heart Disease could be denied coverage by an insurance company. Why dont you owned up to those votes and apologize . I voted against the obamacare Affordable Care act, but we also voted, what you are not telling them the rest of the story, that which you have a habit of doing, is we voted several times to get preexisting protection. We have a bill in there right now democrats are blocking that would reject preexisting conditions in the event the Supreme Court judges it to be unconstitutional. At this is designed for verification you are getting from someone who has always wanted to be a career politician. Moderator mr. Ossoff . Mr. Ossoff the bill you tonsored has carved out specifically allow Insurance Companies to deny coverage for preexisting conditions. You have been called out repeatedly by independent factors Fact Checkers for lying on your record about this. You have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from Insurance Companies and to do their bidding in washington washington, d. C. Voted four times. You sponsored an act to protect Insurance Industry profits by carving out loopholes to deny coverage to georgia to families with preexisting conditions. Take responsibility for your record for once. I do not just blame the other side. Acknowledge your voting record. You get a response very quickly. Sen. Perdue my responsibility to the people of georgia is to make sure they have health care coverage. What the Affordable Care act did was remove options and increase costs. It comes from the Affordable Care act that everybody is being there just about has been so great. It has caused us to lose insurance in over half of our counties in georgia are limited to one insurance carrier. Policy private insurance when they did the Affordable Care act and i lost it. I had to have congress that doubled my rates as an individual. This is what people in georgia are suffering through right now and what they want is protection for preexisting conditions, get rid of surprise billing, and to get drug costs. Moderator mr. Ossoff . Mr. Ossoff once again, you voted four times to reveal reveal protections for preexisting conditions. You spend billions of dollars running ads across georgia telling people you did the opposite. An independent factcheck website and found flatly false. It is hard to get them to find something flatly false. You have been lying to your teeth about your record on health care you sponsored legislation that Everybody Knows and everybody watching as loopholes for Insurance Companies to deny a scare in the event we have a preexisting condition. You should apologize by voting to repeal Vital Health Care protection and continuing that policy in the middle of the pandemic. Apologize. Sen. Perdue do i get to respond to that . Moderator very quickly. Sen. Perdue you can talk idle words on that long but the fact is we have voted for preexisting conditions that carve out not we were talking about. Are you done yet . Can i finish . Moderator lets settle down. Sen. Perdue i was the one interrupted. The issue here is credibility and judgment. We are trying to protect the people of georgia from something that is devastated them in terms of health care because in the middle of this pandemic. They are choosing us of wanting to take away insurance. They have a limited that to so many people in georgia and that is one of the problems. Moderator lets go to eden schultz for the next question. This question is for mr. Ossoff. And you said you would like to expand tuition free Higher Education. How are you going to pay for those kind of programs without raising taxes on workingclass americans . Mr. Ossoff what i said is i want to make sure tuition at Public Colleges and historically black colleges and universities is 100 free of debt, not free of tuition. You should not have to take on a painting of debt to get a degree from a Public College in this country. Both of my parents were the first in their family to graduate from college and the fact they were able to get that education without taking on decades of debt is why they were able to start businesses and invest in their future and my future and gave me opportunities i had. That letter to opportunity as been ripped out for so Many American families. The cost of education in this country is a scandal. What i support is expanding the Pell Grant Program so that tuition to a Public College does not allow anyone in this country to take on debt. Schoolcan come out on and to pursue their dreams instead of paying down debt for decades. Senator produced one student do away with it. Senator perdue proposed abolishing the department of education entirely. He does not care about the interest of ordinary working people and their ability to afford education. He wanted to abolish the department of education and the belt grant program. Sen. Perdue when you ask a democrat how theyre going to pay for anything, they do anything but. They will text you at a rate we have never seen before. That little thing that they are talking about is part of the Green New Deal is supposed to be this great thing about Climate Change rate only 20 as anything to do with Climate Change. Greens in there at the new deal would cost every American Family at 5,000. They have 65,000. They have no way to pay for that. This is the dream of the liberal side of the Democratic Party to take us down a road to bankruptcy. We have got to get serious about our debt. We can talk about that in another question. This is a road you cannot go down. Mr. Ossoff . Mr. Ossoff what im talking about is expanding the Pell Grant Program you want to abolish. The Pell Grant Program. Do you know how many families in the state rely upon the Pell Grant Program to afford Higher Education . You have got these dark conspiracies about this agenda, that which is about expanding opportunity by expanding the Pell Grant Program. You supported abolishing the department of education and you will not owned up to it just like you still refuse to acknowledge that even in the middle of this pandemic you are working to rip Health Care Away from the very people you represent by repealing protections for preexisting conditions. Another opportunity to own your record on health care if you are willing. Moderator senator perdue . He. Perdue she projects projects a reader what he will be doing. This is a serious issue we have got to deal with, and who will determine who gets a debt free and who does not . At the kid working their way through college versus the one who has got a new bmw . I do not want democrats making those decisions. We want everybody to have access to a quality education. School choice is one i am very positive on and these guys are fighting it at every turn. Quickly, mr. Ry ossoff . Mr. Ossoff it is always these guys, this partisan and effective comic team blue versus team red. I am proposing something very popular. Expand the Pell Grant Program to make College Affordable for families in the state. Senator perdue could not care less whether georgia families could afford college. This is a guy who sells meetings on a private island for corporate factchecks. This is a guy who voted four times to vote to appeal protections for preexisting conditions. He still refuses to account for those votes. He will not acknowledge he is continuing the policy to rebuild protections for preexisting conditions. [indiscernible] , he isrdue here again prevaricating. He says i would never take corporate money but it is in a public filing that he took corporate money. At better than thou attitude is just getting to the end of patients. What the real issue is, he has not come clean with china corporate money. What he wants to do with the or opportunityt, or justicecus reform. These are the things people care about that we have just gotten done. He is doing everything she can to sweep the conversation a waiver of those things. Mr. Ossoff i cannot let that stand. Moderator very quickly. Mr. Ossoff i just heard a laundry list of accusations but not one word about health care. This is very straightforward. We are in the middle of a grave Public Health crisis. Spiraling out of control because washington, d. C. Politicians downplayed the crisis, ignored medical science, undermined the doctors and scientists who knew what they were doing and senator david perdue in the middle of this crisis is still supporting efforts to repeal protections for georgians with preexisting conditions. Everybody out there watching at home, if he has his way, Insurance Companies will be able to deny you coverage because you have Heart Disease or diabetes. Your time. That is sen. Perdue lets talk about who is directing what. If you move to socialized medicine, guess who determines who gets surgeries and how long you have to wait and what doctor you use . The federal government. That is what they are proposing. At the cost are astronomical. They cannot pay for socialized medicine and the Green New Deal. It would bankrupt america. We are already in trouble from a debt standpoint. We lowered the debt curve by growing the economy, but we have got to get serious about meeting covid and getting our economy go again. If you leave it to the democrats , they want us locked down and continuing to stay locked down for sometime in the future. Dawnor donna baker baker. When you won the senate seat call that you labeled yourself a deficit hawk. In the past few years under President Trump at a republican u. S. Senate, the deficit has increased dramatically, including a huge tax cut for the wealthiest americans. Have your concerns changed at all . Sen. Perdue thank you for the question and the clarification. The tax cut was not for the rich. The people who benefited the most from it from this economic revival we had our the poorest in our country great under eight years under barack obama and their agenda, 800 thousand people fell into poverty. With this agenda we have put in place working on regulations and taxes and doddfrank, we got the economy going and the people who benefited most were the people at the economic letter. , toelped 6. 5 Million People poverty. The first thing you have to do is grow the economy. What these guys want to do and after barack, doubled all preceding debt under any president. At, president had increased but the big dramatic increase is coming behind the covid relief and the president made the right decision at we backed him up to Bring Company relief, 47 billion. Jon ossoff will not talk about that, the relief brought to the state in terms of hospitals and schools and communities and Small Businesses because he opposed it. He would have voted against this extension form opb help desk ppp help. Mr. Ossoff you read your entire First Campaign on bringing down the International Debt even before covid. After six years in the senate majority, and National Debt increased by 5 trillion on your watch. Those were your policies, and talking about bringing resources home to georgia for our hospitals, nine a rural hospitals have closed in the state in the last 10 years and senator perdue continues to oppose accepting medicaid expansion. Georgians are already paying their federal taxes. You are letting that money go to other states instead of sustaining our rural hospitals. David perdue does not care about our health, only his donors. Moderator that is your job. Is reside. Senator perdue . Sen. Perdue lets get the facts right. It was about 3 trillion and that was the momentum carried after the last administration. We got the economy going, we lowered the debt curve by over 2 trillion, that is a fact. Under covid, we made a tough decision that whatever was necessary to get people to help combat the democrats voted with us on part of it but to get the rest of it there playing partisan politics, and that is what is choking the life out of our economy, and democrat run states blocking the economy. Towill say and do anything hide this radical socialist agenda. The number one thing that will bankrupt us is the Green New Deal and socialized medicine, which he supports. Mr. Ossoff there is the senator with the catchphrases agenda but no substance, little truth and no sense of personal responsibility. Where is the relief, senator . The pvp Small BusinessLending Program expired in august, extended Unemployment Insurance expired in august. Where is the relief. You are on vacation for one month while that happened. Senator perdue wasnt leading the charge to cut Unemployment Insurance in the middle of a pandemic after millions of georgians ended been forced out of work by virus she told us would have little impact on Economic Growth. Where is the relief . Can you do anything but blame the democrats . Sen. Perdue i absolutely can. By bringing the relief to georgia, we saved 1. 5 million jobs, something you would not know about that. You do not know what is involved in creating a job and keeping it. We put money in the hands of the smallest businesses out here. Abouterage loan was 100,000, average employment per recipient is about 10. This was a lifesaving exercise and what is being held up by democrats. We are ready to put this bill on the floor and find another couple hundred million dollars. At they are holding it up because they want stay relief for california and new york, bailout relief for their irresponsible retirement liabilities. Moderator that is your job, lets go on to the next question. Richard rogers, augusta. A evening. Lets talk about cybersecurity. We know it has an International Impact but there are concerns about hacking an outside influence. Businesses are being held hostage by ransomware attacks. How would you make sure the u. S. Has the strongest Cyber Defense possible . Mr. Ossoff this is a vital issue and particularly with elections are coming there is widespread and understandable concerned about our countrys technical infrastructure is resilient enough. We face significant Cyber Threats from abroad and also from nonstate actors. We need to take every step necessary to ensure the United States government, federal agencies, state governments, and American Enterprise are not fromrable to intrusion foreign governments or hackers. It is absolutely essential. Moderator mr. Perdue . Sen. Perdue that was the shortest answer yet talking about the military. That is a great question, one of the top threats we have in our country today. Threats across widespread domains thanks to the Democratic Administration when they cut military spending by 25 , they left the world a more dangerous than any time in our lifetime. We have brought an army separate court is to augusta. This is just the beginning. We will stand up to china and russia and other nefarious players buying cyber but we cannot do it at the democrats come along again and defined at the military like of. If they are like the last two democratic president s, he will cut spending. He supports a plan that will cut and closed two bases in georgia. Moderator mr. Ossoff . Mr. Ossoff it is absolute nonsense. I will stand up and fight for georgias military bases and you are lying to your teeth just like you have been line all night about your record, health care, the pandemic, did you or did you not tell us this virus would be no deadlier than the flu. Did you or did you not tell us the risk to Economic Growth was a little . Did you or did you not tell us that there would be no significant uptick in cases . Those were your exact words. The senators words. It did you not vote four times to reveal protections for preexisting conditions . Will you deflect or answer yes or no . Sen. Perdue did you or did you not support a plan called the joint basing plan to close two bases in georgia . Mr. Ossoff i did not. It would have zero impact on georgia bases and you know it . I am asking the question. Moderator would you let senator perdue finish . Sen. Perdue this is what we get. Swamp and washington, d. C. I am telling you as an outsider this will drive you crazy. Starting was military, with cyber the military and now he is all for everything else. Go back and look at the record in 2017. He ran on the joint basing plan. It is in the record. To ouror lets move on next question, that rogers out of augustine. Richard rogers out of augustine. Voters areeady ready for the campaign to end. The negativity on television has been unbelievable. Are there any false claims you would like to clear up. Moderator senator perdue . Sen. Perdue we do not have enough time. They have outspent us dramatically because of billionaires in california and new york. He raised a lot of money in the Third Quarter. 90 of that came from outside the state of georgia. Who is trying to come into state and manipulate our elections to support jon ossoff question mark they want this radical socialist agenda. They are trying to keep you from talking about that but that is what at play and that is why they do not want to talk about it. I really think the number one thing is what he talks about health care, the vote on obamacare. That is misleading. Same thing for the covid crisis. A took a statement that i sentence and took a phrase out of that sentence and said that was all that i said. When he did not say is we need to take it seriously and right after that we get to work on cares and brought 47 billion to the state of georgia, almost twice the size of the state budget. The other is this doctorate nonsense. He knows it is in the Public Record that is been totally reviewed. Refuted, sorry. Moderator mr. Ossoff . Mr. Ossoff perhaps senator perdue would have been able to respond to the pandemic if you are not been fending off multiple investigations for insider trading. It is not just that you are a crook. Is that you are attacking the health of the people you represent. You did say covid19 was no deadlier than the flu. You did say there would be no significant uptick in cases. You are looking after your own assets at a portfolio and you did vote four times to enter protections for preexisting conditions. The legislation shootout includes loopholes that specifically allow Insurance Companies to deny policies to georgians with preexisting conditions. Can you look now in the camera and tell the people of this state why you voted four times to allow Insurance Companies to deny us Health Coverage because we may suffer from diabetes or Heart Disease or asthma or have cancer in remission . Why . Sen. Perdue i voted against the itordable care act because was taking insurance away from millions of georgians. Today, almost 18 of georgians do not have Health Insurance because of the Affordable Care act. This is exactly what im talking about. He will talk about anything except his own accountability and responsibility. He still has not owned up to the china accusation, which is in the Public Record. The thing i am most upset about is people say and do it almost anything to my friends in georgia to mislead him them. Moderator we are getting to the close of the show. We had four minutes left and we promised we would give each of you closing statements. Let me express my gratitude to the station for hosting us and my gratitude to everybody at home for appearing this election season. It is so important that we make a plan to vote, early voting ending in georgia on friday because our health is on the line. We deserve so much better that we are getting from our government right now. My mother immigrated to this country when she was 23 as a young woman because she believed in america. She believed we would have leaders who brought us together instead of driving us apart. She believed this journey this country is on toward progress, toward a more Perfect Union was beautiful and she went to be a part of it, but what has happened to our country and this last year has broken my mothers heart. Our country as been ravaged by a virus that our politicians told us not to worry about. This virus continues to spread uncontrolled across the United States. Hospitalizations are climbing. Deaths are climbing. Our political leaders have demonstrated they are not up to the task. This is not about political parties. She will give a speech at the moment about democrats and blaming the democrats for this and that. This is not about party. This is about whether we have Company People who will put it Public Health experts in charge to save hundreds of thousands of lives over the next six months and safeguard health care and Health Insurance for ordinary people this crisis. Moderator that is your time. Senator perdue . Sen. Perdue thank you to wtoc and mike for moderating tonight. This race is bigger than me. It is bigger than jon ossoff. It is about the future direction of our country. Make no mistake. Socialiste extremist part of the Democratic Party is in charge, and jon ossoff, no matter what he says about individuals, it be an absolute rubber stamp for Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi as they perpetrate this outrageous and dangerous agenda on our country. Do not let him fool you. Many democrats voted for Amy Coney Barrett on monday night this week . Zero, because Chuck Schumer got them in line and that is exactly what he would do would jon ossoff. This race is too important. You folks know bonnie and me. You know how i will vote, what i have accomplished, but there is so much more work we need to do. We have got to defeat the covid virus and would simply insensibly i get life back to normal, but do it safely and responsibly. That is why im running for reelection, and i would appreciate your vote. Yourator i want to thank both for joining us here in our studio. This has been broadcast throughout the state of georgia. We also want to think our panel of journalists who join us tonight, even shells, barbara goches, jim wallace, richard bigger. And dawn we want to thank our viewers for joining us tonight as well in savannah, augusta, albany, and thomasville, and places few and far between. Election day is on tuesday. Early voting will end this friday and any absentee ballots must be received by your Elections Office to be counted. Make sure you get out and vote. Have a good night. On november 3, when Voters Decide who will occupy the white house next year. Watch cspan every day. Ondemand at cspan. Org or listen on the free cspan radio app. Your place for an unfiltered view of politics. Announcer coming up tonight on cspan, we are on the campaign trail with joe biden. Wednesday, after meeting with his Public Health advisory team, joe biden delivered remarks on the uptake and the spread of the coronavirus throughout the u. S. He cast his vote afterward in delaware and spoke to reporters about the unrest in philadelphia. Joe biden good afternoon, everyone. Im going to make a short going over to and vote with my wife. I will be happy to take your questions after i vote. I just completed another Public Health briefing with my team of Public Health experts. We looked at the latest reported data on how it indicates that we are on an upward slope of a bigger wave of confirmed infections than anything we experienced to date. We talked about what actions would be needed to turn this around and how we made worse by the administrations declaration of surrender to the virus. We discussed the vital importance of wearing masks, protecting yourself, protecting your neighbors, and to save around 100,000 lives in the months ahead between now and just after the first of the year. This is not political. It is patriotic. Wearing a mask. Wear one. Period. We focused on the weight this virus is hitting communities of color, particular black, latino and native american communities. We are seeing racebased disparities across the aspect of this virus, higher infection rates, lower access to testing and harder time quarantining safely because of th