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Celebrity physician turned politician Dr. Mehmet Oz debated his GOP rivals for the first time Monday night in the race to replace retiring Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Senator Pat Toomey.

Central Oregon Daily News is proud to partner with The Bulletin to present the first televised debate among Republican candidates for Oregon governor in 2022.

At a GOP gubernatorial forum Wednesday at the Republican Women of Las Vegas luncheon, candidates discussed how they’d fix education, their plans to improve the economy and run the state.

The three GOP candidates for Idaho attorney general faced off in a spirited debate on statewide television, with incumbent Lawrence Wasden and challengers Raul Labrador and Art Macomber offering differing views of the role of the state’s chief legal officer.

Five Republicans — State Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman, Montgomery County Commissioner Joe Gale, political consultant Charlie Gerow, former U.S. Rep. Melissa Hart, and cardiothoracic surgeon Nche Zama — will participate in the debate Tuesday evening at Gettysburg College.

Gov. Brad Little, who is seeking a second term; state Rep. Priscilla Giddings, who is seeking higher office as lieutenant governor; and Congressman Mike Simpson, who is seeking his 13th term in the U.S. House, let Idaho voters down by announcing they would not publicly debate their opponents in the

Budd, the Republican frontrunner in the race to fill retiring U.S. Sen. Richard Burr’s seat, is testing a tactic that circumvents one of the traditional ways voters get to know candidates. By avoiding debates, the congressman has made a strategic bet that campaign events and millions of dollars in

On Tuesday, four candidates for L.A. mayor demanded to be included in a May 1 debate organized by Cal State Los Angeles and the League of Women Voters of Greater Los Angeles.

Debates stopped serving a constructive purpose once the media gave up and started covering them like cage matches.

When a brief power failure hit in the middle of a Sunday debate between two candidates for U.S. Senate, someone in the pitch-black room blurted out a single word that drew lots of laughter: “Fetterman.”

Mayor Paul TenHaken and his two challengers, Taneeza Islam and David Zokaites, took to the stage at the Washington Pavilion for the mayoral debate on Monday evening.

Attorney General Maura Healey said Thursday she would agree to debate Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz twice between the party's convention in June and the September primary, a much more limited schedule than the three pre-convention debates Chang-Diaz had been seeking.