New mexico u. S. Senate debate. Candidates working hard to earn your vote are democrat Ben Ray Lujan, republican Mark Ronchetti , and libertarian bob walsh. Moderating tonight, kobs anchors and editor in chief of the Santa Fe New Mexican. Good evening. For those of you watching on kob kob. Com, or if youre listening from our network of Radio Partners across new mexico, welcome. Chief of the Santa Fe New Mexican to the moderating team. We are delighted to have candidates who will appear on your ballot running for the open u. S. Senate seat. There will be joining us tonight. Tonight, the candidates are appearing from three locations. Mark ronchetti is with us inside our studio. Ben ray lujan is in his Campaign Office in albuquerque. Bob walsh is at his home in santa fe. Because of covid19 risks, we give candidates the option to appear from wherever they feel safest. There is a crew from kob with each remote candidate to provide timekeeping and enforce rules and provide Live Technology to
U. S. District 21. Good evening cared welcome to this your voice, your vote congressional debate. I am randy beamer with news 4 san antonio. We are doing this in partnership with San Antonio Chamber of commerce. Flock san Antonio Ryan Wolf is also here. Ryan we are live here and also live fuming the debate on our website. Randy we will be broadcasting for half an hour on tv. We will extend that on the web. Right now, we want to introduce you to the candidates. First in the studio, joining us live, is the incumbent for district 21, republican congressman chip roy. Ryan and we want to introduce, from austin tonight, democrat wendy davis. She is a former state senator who ran for governor. Both candidates were given the chance for an in studio appearance. Thetor davis opted to do debate remotely due to the pandemic. The district includes much of the hill country and part of san antonio stretching east up to parts of austin as well. Randy before we get to their questions, here is a quick w
You to the candidates. First in the studio, joining us live, is the incumbent for district 21, republican congressman chip roy. Ryan and we want to introduce, from austin tonight, democrat wendy davis. She is a former state senator who ran for governor. Both candidates were given the chance for an in studio appearance. Senator davis opted to do the debate remotely due to the pandemic. The district includes much of the hill country and part of san antonio stretching east up to parts of austin as well. Randy before we get to their questions, here is a quick word from our sponsors. Randy we want to share the rules for tonights debate that each of the candidates agreed to. Each of them get two minutes for opening remarks and two minutes for Closing Remarks. Ryan each candidate will have one minute to answer a question, then each get 30 seconds for the rebuttal. We have a timekeeper in studio, who will ring a bell when the time has expired. Randy and there was a coin toss earlier this week
At this point in the age of covid, i think the senate has gotten pretty good at this. I think most of the senators are likely to be physically present. Some may participate in virtual interaction with judge barrett. And starting tomorrow, i think we are going to have a full, fair hearing and it will be an opportunity to consider judge barretts qualifications. I hope it does not go down the road it went last time. I hope we do not see Senate Democrats turning it into a political circus like they did with justice kavanaugh. I hope we do not see the kind of personal smears, smears directed her family, directed at her faith. If the discussions next week are about her record and jurisprudence and her fitness to be a judge, great. That is what the senate should be doing. If it becomes personal attacks, i very much hope the democrats refrain from doing that. The delay tactics of the democrats are not going to work. And i think we are going to see, by the way, some more procedural games and sh