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Control the issues including about debating. this is the chance to shine as an individual. if you cant shine, then its over for you. >> the point of these debates are to be respectful to the voters, for everyone, you are asking them to hire you with the most important job there is. harris: its a service to the voters. >> absolutely. anyone and there are people on the left and n this cycle certainly and on the right who have refused before but thats why john fetterman showed up. he cares about th...

Thats not an exaggeration. that is a fact. >> i mean, hes right. but just days out from the midterm elections, hobbs is locked in a statistical dead heat with her opponent, election liar kari lake. the race has led many democrats to wonder why hobbs has given lake an opening by refusing to debate her and call out her lies face to face. secretary hobbs, thanks for joining us. i get not wanting to amplify lakes rhetoric or provide her a platform, but she has a platform. she got one anyway. even if...

She still got one from the tv stations. and shes brand of you a coward for refusing to take the stage with her, then if the facts and truth, doesnt require debating? >> i dont agree with that, i have been continuing to stand up for the facts and truth during my tenure as secretary of state pushing back on all this election denialism since the 2020 election. and on the camp intro. the fact this, in this point in the game, were five days off on the election, i am not second guessing any decision w...

One thing that really came up a lot in the polling, and its something that youve been discussing all morning, and that is almost three-quarters of arizonans we surveyed believe that debating is an important thing for a gubernatorial candidate to do. so that is clearly taking a hit on katie hobbs. were also seeing that, you know, those all-valued independents are breaking in different ways. men are breaking towards masters, whereas independent women are breaking towards kelly. and then, you know,...

Just a little more than a week until the midterms where control of the house and senate hangs in the balance. joining us now is cnn political commentator alice stewart and analyst april ryan. april is also the author of "black women will save the world and anthem." were talkers, and were going to get to the analysis, but i want to get right to it here. alice, first to you, quickly, look, ten days into the future, tell us who is in control of the house? >> well, the house will be republicans. the...

You getting over the top, and it seems that they now believe that all those narrowly ahead. i dont think people are prepared to see what they saw from fetterman, the spin from fetterman, his campaign, he wishes it were together here or there, it was much worse than that. and it is the kind of thing that people talk about, and they wonder about, and they -- a big part of being a senator is talking, listening, arguing, debating, and his recovery is just not what it was portrayed us. >> let me ask ...

But i really doubt at the end of the day that it is going to be the driver of the outcome. >> rich, i am curious from your standpoint, you think that debate is going to affect the outcome? of got this thing back down, negative advertising, largely on crime, and it is sad about eight point -- for a while there. what can we do -- this is going to be a close race. it could beat razor-thin one way or the other. i dont think people are prepared to see what they saw from fetterman, the spin from fette...

Candidates who, for much lesser reasons, have decided not to debate. he could have refused to debate. katie hobbs, in arizona, who i think is handing the governorship to kari lake, for not wanting to debate. >> for not wanting to debate? really. >> refusing the excuse, she is an election denier. because fetterman could have said, i am not going to debate. he couldve taken an l. on that point, she said that he should have said nevermind, it wouldnt have been worth it. you know, you dont agree wit...

Capability to truly serve the people? the debate showed no. in the end, the candidate has to be responsible for their own actions. he has to be responsible for staying in the race and debating. >> neil: how do you see this going? particularly in the senate. >> ive been very pessimistic for republicans. there was a time that i thought democrats could gain two or three seats. now i think the best they can hope for is a 50/50 tie. the two races that im watching are pennsylvania and georgia. the rep...

Standing. >>harris: you know, the whole situation is really a conundrum because democrats had to support him in debating. he was shedding points and he wasnt saying anything. so you would hope, and hope is not a strategy and we now know that, you would want your candidate to go and fight for his right to go to the senate. thats what the plan was and youd use monitor or whatever and talk about asha burns and i -- dasha burns and i tweeted about this last night in realtime. she told us what to exp...