surrogate, bob casey, about the candidate s debate performance. how, mr. fetterman, do you propose doing that, to make it more affordable for families? i just believe, making it it costs too much. i believe providing the resources to reduce the tuition to allow families to be able to afford it. for dr. mehmet oz, new questions about abortion rights. i have been in the room when there s difficult conversations happening. i don t want the federal government involved with that at all. i want women, doctors, local political leaders, leading the democracy that s allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. i will be joined by meet the press host and nbc political director chuck todd with what pennsylvania voters are telling him today. reports from michigan and nevada, two other key battlegrounds in the 2022 campaign. here in pittsburgh, all the talk today is about last night s big senate debate matchup. the one and
it was, as i said, very feisty, very contentious. the overall theme was honesty. whitmer said her opponent was an election denier. she said that dixon was sending out conspiracy theories and spreading misinformation. you had dixon saying that the governor was being dishonest about her record and was misleading people about her views when it comes to covid restrictions and guns and other things. it was really a face-off with both candidates trying to paint themselves paint their opponent as liars. we see that throughout the midterms when we think about what happened in pennsylvania between fetterman and oz. you saw them calling each other dishonest. that is important when you think about the overall theme of the midterms.
surrogate, bob casey, about the candidate s debate performance. how, mr. fetterman, do you propose doing that, to make it more affordable for families? i just believe, making it it costs too much. i believe providing the resources to reduce the tuition to allow families to be able to afford it. for dr. mehmet oz, new questions about abortion rights. i have been in the room when there s difficult conversations happening. i don t want the federal government involved with that at all. i want women, doctors, local political leaders, leading the democracy that s allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. i will be joined by meet the press host and nbc political director chuck todd with what pennsylvania voters are telling him today.
course. one of the things that i was watching closely in terms of the format, the format for all the debates this cycle has been 15 second rebuttal, 30 second answer, 60 second answer on complicated questions. dr. oz was never forced to answer serious questions raised about the products he pushed, profits he made, his television doctoring, serious questions raised by the faculty at columbia university and others. there was no chance and certainly in that format no chance for fetterman to interrupt whereas oz broke the rules and jumped in. fact checkers can look back at oz s record and pushing phony health remedies for people, that people are probably still paying attention to. the format didn t really allow for that or allow for that back and forth. i will say, andrea, there have
been interesting debates this cycle, no question. i still think what matters in debates are whether or not you surpass expectations. people thought that dr. oz was going to go in and wipe the floor with fetterman, that his verbal acuity would be winning the day and that fetterman would really have a hard time navigating. there were bumps along the road, no question. sometimes where he was a little delayed in how he was answering questions. at the end of the day, i don t think that there was such a difference that met the expectations of what it could be. there were moments that i think probably both sides, but certainly democrats will pull out that abortion answer as one that may energize and engage people in the state in this final reach. yes, the format i don t think it was ideal, necessarily. but ultimately, at this point, everybody is looking forward and trying to figure out what they can pull out from the moments. let me talk to you about the