Oct 18, 2026 · 47 min · 27 segments
This week we have a different type of Sunday Take - we pull some excerpts from both the AG and Senate Debates as well as the CD1 perspectives on health care, tariffs and more as we fast approach…
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You could see how Ellison's kind of relaxed style was able to absorb the critiques and criticism of Ron Schuch, both being lawyers, both having worked in a courtroom.

Ron shoots a well-known litigator, even calling himself intense, lost his intensity, which either is a strategy or a part of him not being a candidate before.

I have no doubt that shoots was prepared, but it's the intensity that I think was going to be his advantage.

He should have stayed with that line and demanded an apology and kept asking for an apology.

The other big debate of the week was the U.S. Senate debate between Peggy Flanagan and Michelle Papoya.

And there's two big themes in that race, but they're personality-based and both the personality of Peggy Flanagan, the Lieutenant Governor, and Michelle Tafoya, a sideline reporter, are very contrasting.

Tafoya, of the three challengers we're looking at, had the most specific data Meanwhile, Peggy Flanagan didn't have data.

And so let's listen to the first clip, which is about fraud and how it was going to get handled by the federal government.

The number one issue, A, on voters' minds, but B, also related to Flanagan's eight years of service as lieutenant governor.

You could see how Ellison's kind of relaxed style was able to absorb the critiques and criticism of Ron Schuch, both being lawyers, both having worked in a courtroom.

Ron shoots a well-known litigator, even calling himself intense, lost his intensity, which either is a strategy or a part of him not being a candidate before.

I have no doubt that shoots was prepared, but it's the intensity that I think was going to be his advantage.

He should have stayed with that line and demanded an apology and kept asking for an apology.

The other big debate of the week was the U.S. Senate debate between Peggy Flanagan and Michelle Papoya.

And there's two big themes in that race, but they're personality-based and both the personality of Peggy Flanagan, the Lieutenant Governor, and Michelle Tafoya, a sideline reporter, are very contrasting.

Tafoya, of the three challengers we're looking at, had the most specific data Meanwhile, Peggy Flanagan didn't have data.

And so let's listen to the first clip, which is about fraud and how it was going to get handled by the federal government.

The number one issue, A, on voters' minds, but B, also related to Flanagan's eight years of service as lieutenant governor.
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