arizona public media. republic.izona tonight s robert tonight s moderator. welcome to tonight s debate. there is nothing like election season. we will spend an hour discussing concerns of the people of the second congressional district with the two women vying to represent that district. let s get to it. let s give a welcome to ann kirkpatrick and leah marquez peterson. thank you for joining us tonight. here on the stage, the host and producer, steve goldstein of our sister station in phoenix, joe ferguson of the arizona of thetar, ron hansen arizona republic. before we begin here are the rules for tonight s discussion. each candidate will get a 92nd and one minutent closing statement. our panel of journalists ask questions from a list they have prepared. the questions will be directed to one candidate who will have one minute to respond and the other candidate will have 30 seconds to rebut. if one has a follow-up question to both will have 45 seconds to respond. we will
conversation, immigration reform, north american trade and health care. the hour-long debate is courtesy of arizona public media. welcome to the your vote 2018 congressional district 2 debate presented live from the tucson jewish community center by arizona public media. the arizona daily star and the arizona republic. tonight s moderator is christopher conover. welcome to tonight s debate. i am a political reporter and there is nothing like election season. we will spend an hour discussing concerns of the people of the second congressional district with the two women vying to represent that district. let s get to it. give a warm welcome to the 2018 candidates for arizona second congressional district, democrat ann kirkpatrick and leah marquez peterson. [applause] thank you for joining us tonight. here on the stage, the host and producer, steve goldstein of our sister station in phoenix, joe ferguson of the arizona daily star, ron hansen of the arizona republic. befor
political reporter, steve goldstein of our sister station in phoenix and joe ferguson of the arizona daily star. here are the rules for tonight s discussion. each candidate will get a 90-second opening statement and one-minute closing statement in between our panel of journalists will ask questions from a list they ve prepare. candidates have not seen the questions questions will be directed to one candidate who will have one minute to respond. the other candidate will have 30 seconds to rebut. f one of our journalists has a followup question, both 45-second have a response. going first based on a drawing beforehand, mr. garcia. my name is david garcia, i m running to be governor of my home state my story is arizona s story. i m a further generation arizona quan. a product of arizona public schools. the first in my family to go to college. an army veteran. a teacher. and a father of two amazing girls. and i am running to build the state that built me. i jumped into this r
more on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. and with the ongoing support of these institutions: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. sreenivasan: it was another contentious day on the campaign trail on the ground and online, as the candidates turn their focus to a handful of key states. lsa desjardins reports. oh what these politicians have done to us. reporter: the republican party s civil war raged again this morning on donald trump s favorite platform: twitter. the g.o.p. nominee sent a flurry of tweets criticizing his party, calling house speaker paul ryan an ineffective leader a day after ryan told g.o.p. members of congress he wouldn t defend trump. trump followed by calling his opponents within the party disloyal republicans
major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. and with the ongoing support of these institutions: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. sreenivasan: it was another contentious day on the campaign trail on the ground and online, as the candidates turn their focus to a handful of key states. lsa desjardins reports. oh what these politicians have done to us. reporter: the republican party s civil war raged again this morning on donald trump s favorite platform: twitter. the g.o.p. nominee sent a flurry of tweets criticizing his party, calling house speaker paul ryan an ineffective leader a day after ryan told g.o.p. members of congress he wouldn t defend trump. trump followed by calling his opponents within the party disloyal republicans who don t know how to win. and