Gallego: I would codify Roe. The fact that we have women that are traveling with their daughter who are victims of rape, out of state so they can get an abortion. A 10-year-old baby girl, victim of incest, had to leave her own state to get an abortion. The reason we need to codify it is because people like Kari Lake make this a dangerous situation. She said she was thrilled when Roe was overturned.
Lake: It should be left to the states. I agree with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Everybody knew it was unconstitutional. We have the choice for Arizonans to decide what our abortion law will be, and we will decide in November. Ruben Gallego wants to take the choice away from us. He wants to bring it back to the federal government and take away our rights in Arizona. I want us to have that choice, and whatever the law ends up being I will respect.
Gallego: We first have to accept that climate change is happening. We prepare by having a resilient grid. We need to bring in more energy, and that will have to be nuclear. We can continue the growth that we have in Arizona the manufacturing and residential to make sure we can beat that.
Lake: We need to bring back and start building the Keystone XL pipeline and continue to drill, baby, drill. I want to look at all sources of energy. The Democrats want us to be reliant on foreign energy. Foreign energy with the Middle East and Venezuela. They did not want us to have our own energy. Everything should be on the table to use, cheap and reliable.
Gallego: I am not for illegals voting. She has caused harm to Arizona and have made us a laughingstock. She just said she wants to get rid of vote by mail. What we are seeing here is Kari Lake who still has not accepted that she lost the 2022 election. She will say and do anything to win, but Arizona is the one losing now. Lake: My opponent wants illegals to vote. I want every legal vote to count. I do not care if you are the most liberal Democrat or conservative Republican. Let's get back to something closer we used to have, Election Day, paper ballots, and we know the results right there on the night of the election. We cannot have people pouring across our country illegally voting.
Lake: The border wall keeps us safe. We have seen areas where the border wall is there and where there are gaps, people are pouring through. Ruben Gallego has supported Kamala Harris, the border czar, and Joe Biden's open border policy which has led to 400,000 convicted criminals coming in and they have done nothing to secure the border. The only piece of legislation Mr. Gallego put forth was about removing the word removing the word "illegal." He is more worried about semantics. We are worried about a potential terrorist attack.
Lake: No matter what color your skin, what neighborhood you are from, we went to make sure we have a strong economy. We want to fully fund our police. On day one we will get to secure the border, we will get the criminals who invaded our country out, and we will bring back that strong, thriving economy. If there's any kids watching, I don't want you to worry. I want you to dream big. We are going to turn this country around and your American dream will become reality.
Ruben: We need to keep the middle-class portion of the tax cuts. The tax cuts to the corporations that made billions of dollars on price gouging those need to go up. She was actually for a bigger tax cut. That's ridiculous. We also need to bring in a child tax credit as part of that Trump tax cut, but giving more tax cuts to those not paying their fair share is unfair.
Lake: We are not only going to be extend the Trump tax cuts. We will make sure we are not making anyone who is a senior citizen pay taxes on your Social Security check, no more taxes on tips and overtime. We have got to stop printing money like it's going out of style. That is with the democrats have done, and we will start cutting back on wasteful spending of government.
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