Dennis Owens

Uh, so I covered these, uh, this race and these debates in 2024, and this year's debate was much livelier.

ABC 27's moderator, Dennis Owens, had to repeatedly cut in and interrupt the candidates who began to bicker with each other.

Why was that? Hailey, I want to turn to you.

How did each candidate's strategy sort of feed into this, you know, spicy set of interactions?

Uh, and that is actually something that Democrats are trying to do across the country, get more to, you know, tabletop issues, kitchen table issues, uh, and reach out to more rural folks.

There's clearly, uh, even though Pennsylvania's 10th District includes Carlisle and York and Harrisburg, there's a lot of rural area around Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District, so she was clearly trying to edge into areas where Democrats haven't been widely successful in the past.

Um, there was, [laughs] Katie, I want you to talk about that moment where, uh, uh, Stelson was pressed by the moderator on the party becoming too liberal.

What did she say in response to that?

Uh, so I covered these, uh, this race and these debates in 2024, and this year's debate was much livelier.

ABC 27's moderator, Dennis Owens, had to repeatedly cut in and interrupt the candidates who began to bicker with each other.

Why was that? Hailey, I want to turn to you.

How did each candidate's strategy sort of feed into this, you know, spicy set of interactions?

Uh, and that is actually something that Democrats are trying to do across the country, get more to, you know, tabletop issues, kitchen table issues, uh, and reach out to more rural folks.

There's clearly, uh, even though Pennsylvania's 10th District includes Carlisle and York and Harrisburg, there's a lot of rural area around Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District, so she was clearly trying to edge into areas where Democrats haven't been widely successful in the past.

Um, there was, [laughs] Katie, I want you to talk about that moment where, uh, uh, Stelson was pressed by the moderator on the party becoming too liberal.

What did she say in response to that?

ABC27 hosted the debate, the only one for this election.

Reporter Dennis Owens moderated and had to break up candidate arguments three times in an hour.

Well, we'll let the folks at home how they feel.

Okay, right now, Mr. Perry and Ms. Stelson.

Oh my God, can you imagine if you said that last night? And again, those people struck me as professional.

Uh, Dennis Owens, I know a little bit about, nice guy, professional and all that, but I'm going here for my life against this guy.

I don't care what the moderators say.

I'm not being disrespectful to you.

Only a stone memorial remains to mark his tragic death.

Cut to then, fast forward 20 years in the future, and we meet Amanda, who has no idea or had no idea that she had an older brother named Dennis Owens or that he had died.

He was adopted as a baby and then learned about him later while looking into her late birth mother.

And she's reached a place in her life where she's curious to know more about this lost brother.