2024 Wisconsin Senatorial race: debates and news coverage


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Abortion     Eric Hovde: Voters can respect life while safeguarding individual rights.     Eric Hovde: Supported overturning Roe v. Wade.     Eric Hovde: Unconscionable to terminate healthy baby born alive.     Eric Hovde: Woman's right to choose but only in first trimester.     Tammy Baldwin: A woman's rights shouldn't depend on her zip code or state.

Budget & Economy     Eric Hovde: We must dramatically reduce federal spending and deficits.

Civil Rights     Eric Hovde: They want to get rid of meritocracy in our country.

Corporations     Phil Anderson: Work with small business to rebuild Wisconsin's economy.     Eric Hovde: Economic sanity: private-sector-driven pro-growth business.     Eric Hovde: Low corporate tax rate, but set a minimum tax rate.     Tammy Baldwin: Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

Crime     Eric Hovde: Claims "defunding the police" is cause for high crime rates.

Drugs     Eric Hovde: Not a libertarian when it comes to drugs.     Phil Anderson: Rated A by NORML on marijuana reform.     Tammy Baldwin: Rated A+ by NORML: long-time advocate for cannabis .

Education     Eric Hovde: Student debt forgiveness is unfair at every single level.     Eric Hovde: Worry about the basics, not gender-inclusive policies.     Tammy Baldwin: Create a debt-free path to nursing degrees.

Energy & Oil     Eric Hovde: Delusional to end fossil fuel use.     Eric Hovde: Roll back regulations to expand energy production .     Eric Hovde: Climate change is an existential threat to humanity.

Environment     Tammy Baldwin: Community projects to clean up the Mississippi River.

Families & Children     Eric Hovde: Restrictions on gender-affirming treatments for minors .

Foreign Policy     Eric Hovde: Lead through deterrence, send a clear message of strength.     Eric Hovde: Trump put crushing sanctions on Iran; Biden lifted them.     Eric Hovde: Don't think we should endlessly fund money into Ukraine.     Tammy Baldwin: Keep some hope alive of the two-state solution in the region.     Tammy Baldwin: Ukraine is about democracy versus dictatorship.

Government Reform     Eric Hovde: Tighten up voting process; clean up voting system.     Eric Hovde: Platform includes scaling back government regulations.     Eric Hovde: Nursing homes struggling with massive amounts of regulations.     Eric Hovde: Why did state Supreme Court bring back drop boxes?     Tammy Baldwin: We have seen laws passed to make it harder for some to vote.

Gun Control     Eric Hovde: Right to keep and bear arms: no exception.

Health Care     Tammy Baldwin: Address racial disparities in health care system.     Eric Hovde: The ACA has failed to live up to its expectation.     Eric Hovde: ObamaCare is stupid to keep 26-yr-olds on parents' insurance.     Eric Hovde: Opposes repealing Obamacare, for Medicaid expansion.     Eric Hovde: I think drug prices are wildly too high.     Tammy Baldwin: We need to build upon the Affordable Care Act.

Homeland Security     Eric Hovde: DOD is the most wasteful and corrupt agency in history.

Immigration     Eric Hovde: Our laws need to be enforced and our borders strengthened.     Eric Hovde: Border is not really a huge issue, hyped by the right.     Eric Hovde: Bipartisan bill would allow 5000 illegal immigrants daily.     Eric Hovde: Like a rotten onion, many layers to this open border.     Tammy Baldwin: Bipartisan bill would have added 1500 border patrol agents.

Jobs     Eric Hovde: Minimum wage was never supposed to be a living wage.     Eric Hovde: Economic focus: jobs. Inflation, and overall growth.

Principles & Values     Eric Hovde: We can restore the American Dream by coming together.     Phil Anderson: Lifelong Wisconsin resident; graduate of UW-Madison.     Eric Hovde: We've collapsed patriotism; our country is redeemable.

Social Security     Eric Hovde: Trim benefits; raise the retirement age.     Eric Hovde: Adjust for younger people, life expectancy going up.     Tammy Baldwin: Extend solvency of Social Security by lifting income cap.

Tax Reform     Eric Hovde: Everybody should pay some level of tax, even a small amount.     Eric Hovde: Get the rich and powerful to pay their fair share.

Technology     Phil Anderson: FISA Reform erodes our fundamental right to privacy.

War & Peace     Tammy Baldwin: Two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.

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