Did you notice the notable spike in excitement during Tuesday night’s DemDebate when the candidates were asked about abortion and reproductive health?
has refused to hold a vote on it in the Senate. Why not ask the candidates how quick they’d be to sign it if it ever reached their desk—or what they will do if it can’t pass through Congress? There is a lot at stake this year for LGBTQ Americans, and these issues deserve space in the Democratic debates.
It was also an act of stunning ignorance that Tuesday’s debate never touched on the climate crisis facing the planet. This is an issue that truly knows no identities—although climate change willwomen, low-income people and people of color. In the wake of widespread strikes and celebrity arrests drawing attention to the critical need for climate solutions, it is critical that lawmakers be pressed to articulate their own.
Debate moderators in the future would do well to heed the calls from organizations calling for debate questions on urgent social issues like abortion and LGBTQ rights and global issues like climate change. What candidates talk about on the debate stage doesn’t just impact the headlines—those answers, and the issues raised in these forums, impact our lives.
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