Challenger in southfield, michigan. Later chris sununu facing his democratic challenger in New Hampshires governors race. Watch all these debates tonight on cspan, cspan now, or online at cspan. Org. Host just after 9 00 on the east coast in time for our open forum. In this half hour, we let you leave the discussion. Any Public Policy or political issue. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. As you are calling in, we will give you a roadmap this morning. After we end at 10 00 a. M. Eastern, we are going to go to the American Enterprise institute for a discussion on the topic of elections and how they are administered. That discussion is here on cspan and cspan. Org as well and you can watch it on the free cspan video app. At noon, eastern, our coverage will begin again. The New Hampshire vittorio debate, governor chris sununu. Here at cspan. Org and the free cspan now video app. Now, open forum. What do you want to talk about . Louis from north carolina, your up first. Caller top of the morning to you cspan and america. It seems like every primary, every election year, you hear the republicans talk about crime. They talk about inflation, talk about gas and canned goods. Every election. But after the election, they do not want to pass any kind of gun laws. We have so much crime right now, dealing with trump and all the enablers he had but they did not talk about that crime. They want to talk about the innercity crime. You know what crime going around in north carolina, maybe someone can help me with this, but a lot of people, and majority of people on the news talk about somebody broke in my car and still there gun, it is a white person. But every time a gun is stolen out of their car, the car is not broken into. No damage to the windows or doors. Somebody needs to be held accountable outside once they found that gun and committed some type of crime. I do not know if they are doing what we call a snatch and grab where they say the gun was stolen and they get insurance on it and get a new gun or money but somebody looks needs to look into whatever car the broke into, when they claim a gun was stolen, so they need to have a law against them. Host clay out of pennsylvania, republican. Caller larry sabato said it was not the president whose fault it was. To me it is the president guiding his people, his staff and so on. Unlike the other guy, i always said it was a democrat that in school. I have seen but democrats have done. Just like him, i got two or three days ago and mine happened to be 1288. 39 and it will take me to fill four times this year. I have a small house and i am on Social Security. It is the president. They always enjoy watching larry sabato but he is wrong. He guides the people. The same way with gas and oil wells. I just so happen to have a gas well on my ground and the people that are in charge of putting that there had to wait a year until a brown batch was moved. I do not know whether people are more important or bats but it is the president in my opinion. Host richard, independent. What is on your mind . Caller good morning. I just want to say it is a beautiful morning out here. It is a little after 8 00 a. M. And the sun is coming out. Without cspan, i do not know how i would get through the day. My wife and i exercise every morning and have our cspan on. We watch you and hear people talk on the phone. I didnt know how else we are going to get through life without the truth and cspan has the truth. Also, it is my wifes 81st birthday today and i would like to wish her an 81st birthday. After that, nothing more than thank you. Host what is your wifes name . Caller betty. Host happy birthday to betty. Thank you for watching. Teresa in pennsylvania, line for democrats. Caller the guy that was just on stole my thunder. For us to have Oil Delivered to my house, they used to come out but now it is a minimum of 100 50 gallons and 745. Luckily we put a heat pump in and we use oil only for backup. When the temperature drops below a certain temperature, the oil kicks on. We have not been able to afford getting the Oil Delivered yet so we have been keeping our thermostat on 67 degrees no matter how how cold it gets. Host do you expect that issue to come up in tonights Senate Debate in pennsylvania . Caller because it is out of control. Because they cannot drive the trucks because the price of gas. They will not deliver for less than 150 gallons. We used to just get 50 here or there but we have to save up our money to get Oil Delivered. That is all i wanted to say. Happy birthday to the lady that just turned 81. Host let me stay in pennsylvania for a couple minutes. The Senate Debate happening tonight. Here is a headline from penn l ive. John fetterman and mehmet oz set to debate tonight. The question for mr. Pros is the set up for tonights debate. There is some accommodations being made in light of the Health Issues that John Fetterman has faced. Can you explain how this is going to go down tonight . Caller the John Fetterman campaign asked for closed captioning for their candidate for the lieutenant governor. He has used this in interviews since he got back on the campaign trail in july. Obviously following his stroke in mid may. The close captioning will be used in the debate tonight. Thats became sort of a point of contention. The Mehmet Oz Campaign asked for an additional 30 minutes to accommodate for what they said would be a lack possibly in communicating with the closed captions. The John Fetterman campaign refused to extend that so the debate is still set for one hour. Host will that be on a screen on a tv in front of him or on his podium . How is that going to work . Something a bit unusual for folks who watch a lot of these debates. Guest i am not exactly sure of the logistical set up in the tv studio but that is what he has been using in interviews. The one he did with the penn l ive editorial recently was on our facebook page. He was using that. He spoke generally pretty well, especially compared to when he first came on the campaign trail at his first dependent appearance at a rally in erie. His speech was noticeably stilted and halted. The Campaign Says the closed captions are to simply accommodate his Auditory Processing issues he has. It is not a reflection of cognitive ability. His doctors have come out and said he is fully capable of serving in the senate. In performing the job. But a lot of it is optics and how he appears and does this raise any questions in voters minds about his ability to serve . I think that, alongside the issues that obviously will be raised, the optics and how he performs and how voters perceive him is tonight. Host this debate at 8 00 p. M. Eastern in pennsylvania. Who are the moderators and how are both sides setting expectations for their candidates in these hours before the debate . Guest dennis owens from abc 27 in harrisburg. He will be one of the moderators as well as lisa sylvester, and anchor at wpxi. They are going to be sharing duties. I have not spoke directly about the expectations but i would imagine that based on what they have been saying the entire time, the sissy chance for the Mehmet Oz Campaign to this is the chance for the Mehmet Oz Campaign to make points. Another point of contention is mehmet oz has come out and hammered John Fetterman for skipping debates. I think oz has committed seven other debates but federman declined. This is mehmet ozs only chance to be out in front of voters on a statewide basis and make his case and get points in this race. Again, going back to John Fetterman, this is his chance. To show voters that he is more than capable of handling the job. Host you mentioned this being the only debate. There will not be any debates in the closely watched gubernatorial pennsylvania. Why is that . Guest they simply have not been able to come to any agreements. Doug mastro 90, the far right state senator, republican candidate, has made insisted on some changes in debates that have been offered. He is not happy with the moderators. He offered that he would choose one and the democratic candidate shapiro would choose another one but schapiro did not like that. The tradition is candidates do not get to choose their moderators. The host and to ever extremely debates tuesday moderators. They have not come to any agreement to do a debate. The polls consistently show that shapiro was considerably in the lead with 10 points or more. It is probably not in his interest to such a big league to get such a big lead because you give your opponent to name points against you. It is sort of a craven political thing but it is in reality. They have not been able to agree on anything. Master nonno mastriano has ignored a lot for his campaign. He has only gone with conservative outlets and used his facebook page. It is just in the same vein of ignoring the traditional media. Host we are exactly two weeks away from election day. What you folks need to know about mailin voting in pennsylvania and early voting . What are the rules that your state works under . Guest what is going on now has been going on for a couple weeks. Another point of contention in the Senate Debate because the Mehmet Oz Campaign said this debate was coming so late in the game, weeks after mailin voting began, that a lot of people had already voted. There are the big thing that you can say is the quote unquote naked ballot as they referred to it in pennsylvania. The democrats have made a big push to make sure that people include there is an envelope that you put into a free fill it out. Then you put the ballot into the envelope that is actually mailed. You have to hand date it. Dating it is another issue that has been caught in the courts of whether or not they count it. You have to simply follow the rules. The naked balance, if they come without the secrecy envelope, will not be counted. Democrats are pushing this issue because democrats overwhelmingly voted by mail compared to republicans. That is the Biggest Issue going on now. Then, obviously the county of mailin ballots once they get to the offices because officers have not had much additional time to do that. The legislature has not acted on that and given counties or time. We are going to be looking at a couple days to get the process like it was in 2020. The process of turning in the mailin ballots and how long it takes the counties to process this. Host prose is a reporter with debatelive. Com. Will you be there for the debate . Guest i will be in the tv studio in harrisburg. Host pennlive. Com where you can see his reporting. Back to open forum. Any political issue you want to talk to. Janine in fort mitchell. Republican, good morning. Caller republican. Thank you. Janine smith, kentucky. We are from the beautiful new grass state and we have the bluegrass state and we are totally red. We have two constitutional amendments on our vote. I will address amendment two which is to vote yes for the reports of life. This was written by fisher who is also the Kentucky Supreme Court candidates. This is to vote yes on two. It says kentucky will send a clear message there is no right to an abortion or funding of abortion in kentuckys constitution. Passing this amendment will remove the basis of the alcu lawsuits and any further challenges. This does not ban abortions but allows judges to prevent from legislating from the bench. There is nothing in the state that can in the kentucky constitution that says you have a right to an abortion and nothing that says we the people have to pay for it. This is at the bottom of the ballot. We have very long balance at this point. We have all the mayors and more in kentucky. But that is to say yes on two. If i can go on to amendment number one. Host if you can make it fairly quick. Caller a vote on amendment number one is to ensure that we can have in freeport frankfurt yearround. May i add that we had andy beshear, our governor, shutdown our state. And actually went to the parking lots of people on church on Easter Sunday and had state police put papers on their windshields saying they were in violation of their mandate and would be held responsible. Please vote yes for one and two. Host mike, independent, good morning. Caller good morning john. Shout out to all the foster parents out there. I am having trouble swallowing. Our governor is backing bailey in the republican primary with money and advertisements. I feel that is kind of fraud. Now he has an easy win with bailey. He is also the same governor that did a form of genocide by inserting sick people into Senior Citizens homes and not going to jail for it. Another thing i have trouble swallowing is the 60 day grace that the department of justice gave all politicians but not the american people, that they cannot file charges for 60 days around an election. Where did this law come from . Has the Supreme Court looked this up . Because for trump and all the bootleggers should have been locked up a long time ago. For them to give another 30 days seems like another slap in the face of america. Host i do not think that is an actual law. I think that is a practice. Caller do you know where it came from and when it will go away . I think there is a really great area, especially if you do the math. Host that is a good question and maybe it is worth a segment for us to dig into on washington journal. Im certain my producer downstairs is writing that down. Derek in maryland, democrat. Caller good morning. Just listening to everybody talk. Very interesting. We have early voting here in maryland on the 27th. Wes moore is probably going to win that. I could see him being a future nominee for president. What i want to talk about is the fact that if we do not indict trump for trying to stop the peaceful process of transition of power, we are making a terrible, terrible mistake. Cannot let him thank you. Host out of georgia, tommy. Good morning. Caller good morning. Can you hear me . Host yes, sir. Go ahead. Caller i have a couple things to say. I am republican and have voted republican but the last two elections, i have not been able to find a reason to vote republican. One, i discovered they are trying to sunset Social Security. I am a retired military guy and i just got my first Social Security check and now i found out my Republican Party is going deciding that they are going to sunset Social Security and medicare. That is half of my retirement besides my military. Then i find out they are planning on introducing legislation to try to stop by my military benefits or to reduce by military benefits. I am trying to figure out, a guy like me who is 66 years old and retired, i am trying to find why would i vote republican if they are going to do that . Then i look at they are going to stop supporting ukraine . And support russia . I am baffled. I am just the sunsetting and host what is keeping you republican . Why do you still identify as republican . Caller because i like the value of self a person that does not rely on government but a person that i like the republican idea of being selfsufficient and depending on yourself and that you should be relying on yourself. That you should not depend on government to bail you out unless you are in a bad situation. To see them turn around and seem to be too poor to pour all of the benefits that help people to save money for richer people, i guess, because republicans are already talking about less taxes for the wealthiest people in america again. I am baffled. I cant find a reason why i would vote for my party. Host ralph in richmond, missouri. Good morning. Guest first of all, i agree with the last caller. Second of all, if people would really look at big Oil Companies, they are making huge profit and not adjusting. The other comment and question that i have is where is all of this dark money coming from that they keep talking about . But they dont talk about it very much. That is all i got. Host ray in fremont, california. Democrat. Caller good morning. I wanted to talk about prices because we live in a Free Enterprise system, which means the government does not control corporations or what prices they set. And we were in a pandemic for a couple of years, where over a million of our fellow americans and friendly neighbors died because of covid. Over a million. And we had to shut down. People were not going to work and some of them were without protection and they died. Things were in a really bad shape. So now that the markets are coming back and people are trying to get back to normal, the companies that were not able to fully function during the pandemic are trying to make their money back. Plus, the government does not control the prices. That happens in a communist kind of set up. Companies are setting their own prices, apparently. Host do you mind if i ask, what with your thoughts on the Free Enterprise system, do you think the government should be working to bring down gas prices as the Biden Administration has been trying to do . With this spike in gas prices, do you think the administration should be doing more to bring down home heating prices . We found out yesterday that the cost of heating someones home will be 28 more this winter than last. Is that something you are ok with the government getting involved in . Caller it depends. Because the issue, again, is that the government is not the entity setting the price for the product or the service. The Oil Companies are doing that. As the gentleman before me just said, Oil Companies are making out they are getting profits at a rate they have not seen in ages. We are the ones being ripped off by companies. The president can do very little. He can try to influence companies to have give their customers a fair shot. But the profit motive gets in the way of that. Companies typically are there to make a profit. Government is there to provide services to our population. Host one more call in this open forum. Jim in georgetown, texas. Republican, good morning. Caller good morning. Let us go back to pennsylvania for a minute. Ok . Host yes, sir. Sure. Guest caller hello . Host what do you want to talk about in pennsylvania . Caller i think everybody should visit gettysburg to start with. I have a comment about the democrat who is running for senate, a gentleman named John Fetterman. Host yep. Caller everybody can tell, just recognize him at a glance. He looks like a homeless guy down here at the quarter in austin, texas. He has no respect for the senate or anything else. He looks like a bum. Host jim in georgetown, texas. Our last form caller in this open forum. It is centerforpolitics. Org crystal ball. What is the crystal ball telling you