Evan Bayh and Todd Young pounded each other as tools of special interests who don’t have Hoosiers’ well-being at heart, in a slugfest of a debate for a U-S Senate seat from Indiana.
The Indianapolis debate is the only one planned in a race which is critical to both Republicans’ and Democrats’ hopes of controlling the Senate. Both Young and Bayh came armed with lists of votes the other has cast in.
No vote surfaced as frequently as the federal health care law. Young repeatedly reminded voters Bayh cast a deciding vote for a law he calls “a job killer.” Bayh charges Young’s continued opposition to the law would turn the clock back to a time when people could be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions.
Bayh came back again and again to Carrier’s impending move to Mexico from Indianapolis, blasting Young for supporting a tax break that enables the move.
Both candidates favor working with allies to cripple ISIS in Iraq and Syria. But their
hawkish approach put them at odds with Libertarian nominee Lucy Brenton, who repeatedly slammed what she says has been an indiscriminate policy of “dropping bombs on people.” She says she’d support only humanitarian aid.