JACKSON — Mississippi voters deserve to hear U.S. Senate candidates debate issues such as the minimum wage and the availability of health care, the Democratic nominee said Thursday.
Former U.S. Rep. Travis Childers said he’s challenging six-term Republican Sen. Thad Cochran to debate him four times before the Nov. 4 election — once in each of Mississippi’s congressional districts.
Cochran campaign spokesman Jordan Russell responded that the campaign will consider all scheduling requests. Cochran did not debate his Republican primary challenger and has said voters can compare candidates’ records without seeing them on the same stage.
Childers, who won a north Mississippi congressional seat in 2008 and was defeated in 2010, said he has accepted invitations for a Senate campaign debate at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and at the Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson. He said dates have not been set.
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