“In Iowa, Sen. Joni Ernst (R) has challenged her Democratic competitor to six debates… In North Carolina, Sen. Thom Tillis (R) pressed his Democratic opponent to accept five debates… And in Maine, Sen. Susan Collins (R) declared that she wants to debate her opponent 16 times… starting immediate,” the Washington Post reports.
“Republicans acknowledge that this upends the usual debate about debates, in which an incumbent rarely wants to give the challenger the same platform. Incumbent senators are pleading with their lesser-known rivals to join them on debate stages, or Zoom, trying to elevate the profile of these Democrats.”
“But they view this as a matter of necessity in a campaign in which Republicans are running into the head winds of President Trump’s sagging poll numbers amid his stumbling response to the coronavirus pandemic.”
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