there is a lot to discuss. with our cnn political commentators. we have scott jennings, karen finney, and senior political analyst, bonnet brownstein. great to have you here. let s start with the senate debate. the john fetterman and mehmet oz that just happened tonight. and of course, crime came up. it has been a big issue in that race. let s hear their exchange. i m the only person on the stage right now that has been successful about pushing back against gun violence and being the community more safe. all he has done is just put a plan on his website in the last 24 hours. he has no experience. he has never made any attempt to try to address crime. the eternal order of police, from braddock, this meltdown he represented, endorse me, because what he is saying it s not true. violent skyrocketed in braddock. the town wasn t in good shape when he got there. it got worse when he. okay, john. i know you are chomping at the bit. i thought this was an important exchange bec
and it was a total train wreck for the left. fetterman, flip-flopping on key issues. watch. good night, everybody. let s talk about the elephant in the room. i ve had a stroke. he s never let me forget that. my doctor says i m fit to be serving. john fetterman during this crime wave has been trying to get as many murderers convicted and sentenced to life in prison out of jail as possible. i believe that i run on my record on crime. i m the only person on this stage right now that can that has been successful about pushing back against gun violence. there s that 2018 interview that said, quote, i don t support fracking at all. so how do you square the two? i do support fracking. and i don t i don t i support the fracking. i stand and to support fracking. fetterman s camp blaming the captioning system provided for him as being delayed and with errors, but that quickly got shut down. they spin the awful performance as a win. i think the people of pennsylvania
there is a lot to discuss. with our cnn political commentators. we have scott jennings, karen finney, and senior political analyst, bonnet brownstein. great to have you here. let s start with the senate debate. the john fetterman and mehmet oz that just happened tonight. and of course, crime came up. it has been a big issue in that race. let s hear their exchange. i m the only person on the stage right now that has been successful about pushing back against gun violence and being the community more safe. all he has done is just put a plan on his website in the last 24 hours. he has no experience. he has never made any attempt to try to address crime. the eternal order of police, from braddock, this meltdown he represented, endorse me, because what he is saying it s not true. violent skyrocketed in braddock. the town wasn t in good shape when he got there. it got worse when he.
about crime in the way that you are speaking, about about homicide and crime and outsized acai, and you ve got democrats talking about gun control and access to weapons, we are our people safe? we want to have you all weigh on on these comments, to join the conversation. what and will crime be the big issue for voters on election day? it certainly is. at this table? and what about the fetterman oz debates tonight? what did you see? it tweet us at the laura coates and at alisyn camerota.
the task, is that crime is being used, obviously, in so many different races and seen, as we learned, in the voter panel that we had on last week democrats and republicans both see crime. but they see it very differently. and so republicans, i think, see crime as street crime, and street crime is. if you are afraid to ride the subway. democrats that we talked to see crime as access to weapons and school shootings and mass shootings, things like that. it s just an interesting he saw that in the other debates night. in the governor s debate in michigan, the key exchange was about gun violence, particularly in schools with governor whitmer, really pushing to tour, dickson, in new york as well. i wrote a piece last week on a study by seven academics that looked at the murder rates in all of the major cities in the country and found that, since 2016, they had actually