attempts to schedule an interview with her. we needed the press to be our friend. to be your friend? to report the news the way we want it to be reported. reporter: even when her own campaign called a news conference, she bolted for the door before anyone could answer a question. why won t you answer what remedies mean? it is a simple question? reporter: why is she running away? she would have to explain this. we need to look at personalizing the social security and medicare programs. your plan calls for transitioning that is a harry reid lie. your program says transition out to a personalized account. i am here to save social security. reporter: by transitioning out of it? and now in some cases saying, i did not say that or in other cases saying, well, not privatize it, but personalize. well, what is personalize it? and on jobs you can make more money on unemployment than going down to make a job that is an honest
deny it. and personalizing for private and public and i did not understand what she was trying to explain when she said as you say trying to soften the stance, but what i was amazed at was how harry reid never, as you just pointed out never went for the kill on some of the things on some of the issues. he never button holed her, and the moderator button holed her more times than harry reid did. look, the theatrics to the entire debate were so awkward and painful to watch for a voter in nevada, because both of them struggled to be articulate in the beginning of the debate. by the end of the debate, they were both a little more comfortable, but the lack of exchanges by harry reid in particular with sharron angle is what surprised me. and the tea party candidates and sharron angle and christine o donnell now i think seem to benefit from having such low expectations of the performance and they spend so much time on
republican party, itself. we started the race and we will finish the race. they have bombarded us every step of the way, and it has not worked. we will finish november 2nd and there is a tea party of nevada on the ballot november 2nd and nevada will have a choice. scott ashjian, senate candidate in the state of nevada. thank you for joining us toni t tonight. thank you forhaving me. our coverage continues, and we will talk to sue louden who lost to sharron angle in the primary against harry reid. and what is said about bullying and teenaged suicides, and it was said by a texas politician. it is tonight s spotlight. [ female announcer ] mousse temptations by jell-o. decadently delicious. 60 calories.
this one we will watch right dun to the wire. yes, we are. thanks, chuck. you got it, bud. one of the candidates not on tonight s stage, but still is seen as a factor in the nevada senate race was tea party candidate scott ashton who joins me live now from las vegas. scott, you are on the ballot in nevada along with harry reid and sharron angle, but you were not allowed in this debate, and did both sides want to exclude you from the debate? i think that i m not sure if both sides wanted to exclude me, but i surely was excluded. i m not sure why, because everybody s opinion should have been heard. and if you had a chance to ask one question up there in debate as the moderator since you weren t a participant what question would you have asked? i probably would have asked both of them since they are career politicians, why are they charging the american public when both of them clearly sharron angle 15 years and harry
folks have the opportunity to have a personalized social security retirement account similar to the thrift plan that senator reid has and if it is good enough for harry reid, it should be good enough for the rest of us. chuck, on the social security, she has said in the past that basically it needs to be phased out? right. and here tonight, as you say, harry reid never managed to close in and use those statements that she has in the past, because what we have seen with sharron angle and with christine o donnell and other tea party candidates when they step up to the debate stage, they are ready to make much softer statements with much rounder edges to them about things like social security. what was amazing actually is she did not deny, and there was another question, lawrence, where the moderator quoted her saying, you know, in a primary debate, you said you were for privateizing social security and now you say it is personalize personalized basically saying