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Crime, education and the economy were leading issues discussed Monday by eight candidates who are seeking Maryland’s Democratic nomination for governor during their first statewide televised debate.

Britt has kept a consistent approach to topics she has recently spoken out about, including her decision to decline a televised debate with Brooks before the runoff.

U.S. Senate candidates Ally Isom and Becky Edwards took the opportunity to point out, in incumbent Sen. Mike Lee's absence on the debate stage Thursday, what differentiates them from him.

At least some of the five South Carolina Democrats seeking their party's gubernatorial nomination are expected to debate, just more than a week before the state's primary elections.

Two of the three leading Democrats running for New York governor faced off in their first debate Thursday, with Jumaane Williams and U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi missing no opportunities to attack the absent incumbent, Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Katie Britt will not debate opponent Mo Brooks before the June 21 U.S. Republican Senate runoff, a decision that led to the campaigns accusing each other of bad faith on Wednesday.

Utah’s Republican incumbent Sen. Mike Lee faced no shortage of attacks Wednesday from his GOP opponents in what was the first — and likely the only — public face-off between the trio before the Utah GOP primary June 28.

Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, the Republican with the most money and best polling position so far, served as a political pinata Thursday for his five GOP rivals for Illinois governor during their first public debate with him on the same televised stage.

For debates in Utah's 3rd and 4th congressional district races, the question Wednesday became about "the elephant that's not in the room."

After a chaotic few weeks of back-and-forth, silence, statements and finagling involving the candidates, the Utah Republican Party and the Utah Debate Commission, a debate schedule that still seems subject to adjustment has come together.

The Republican challenger in Utah’s 4th Congressional District calls incumbent Rep. Burgess Owens a “coward” for not participating in upcoming debates.

State Sen. Don Coram tried to paint himself as a moderate, experienced alternative to incumbent U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert during the first debate between the candidates ahead of the Republican primary elections.