North Dakota U.S. Senate candidates blasted each other's records up and down during a debate Wednesday that at times turned chaotic.
U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., is seeking a third six-year term against Democrat Katrina Christiansen and independent Rick Becker, who sought the GOP endorsement in April and narrowly lost to Hoeven. Christiansen is a University of Jamestown engineering professor. Becker is a plastic surgeon and Republican state representative who founded the ultraconservative Bastiat Caucus in the Legislature.
Questions on abortion and inflation in the Prairie Public/AARP North Dakota debate quickly brought interruptions and cross-talk, with Hoeven's challengers criticizing his votes in the Senate and for him "clinging to old ideas."
Becker ripped Hoeven's vote for the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as adding to inflation and being "hand in hand" with Democratic President Joe Biden.
