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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Former Assemblymember Adam Gray and existent U.S. House Representative John Duarte faced disconnected successful a televised hour-long statement successful Sacramento Thursday night.
It's a high-stakes contention with galore eyes watching the candidates.
Just 564 votes separated Gray and Duarte successful the 2022 midterm election. Now the 2 are facing disconnected for a rematch.
Both candidates are moving to correspond California's 13th Congressional District, which spans crossed Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties.
The statement began with the contented of migration wherever some candidates were asked astir amnesty and deportations.
"I would enactment amnesty for the families who've been surviving here, moving present for much than 5 years and surviving successful the shadows, but different legal. Not breaking the instrumentality and moving present successful America and keeping our system going," Duarte said.
"Because of authorities and due to the fact that of President Trump astatine the apical of the ticket, creating division, insulting immigrants and scaring people, calling them rapists and criminals, that accidental for advancement got blown up. And truthful we request to nonstop radical to Congress that are really going to enactment unneurotic with some parties to tackle this," Gray said.
Another large contented brought up by the statement moderators was the outgo of living. The candidates were asked astir rent power and the minimum wage. Candidates were besides asked astir affordable lodging and their solutions to tackle the existent issue.
"We tin walk our infrastructure dollars and we tin trim our requirements connected caller homebuilders and we tin get h2o wherever it needs to be," Duarte said.
"We request the occupation grooming programme to really get the workforce to person a large renaissance and detonation of building," Gray said.
The moderators besides asked astir backing for high-speed rail. Gray said he'd enactment much funding, but wants the task to beryllium connected clip and connected budget, portion Duarte said helium wouldn't and would privation the wealth to spell to different projects.
Duarte was asked by the moderators if he'd enactment codifying Roe v. Wade into law, protecting termination rights.
"I would... I would look astatine it. That's a hypothetical. So I can't reply due to the fact that I can't spot the bill. But I americium pro-choice and I bash fundamentally judge a woman's prime to person an termination is betwixt her and her doctor," Duarte said.
And Gray, who has already said helium would ballot to codify Roe, was asked if helium supported immoderate limits connected abortion.
"Again, a doc and a pistillate volition marque the reproductive wellness attraction choices that are medically appropriate, and that's wherever we request to permission it," Gray said.
There are much registered Democrats over Republicans successful the district.
Republicans who presently clasp a precise slim bulk in Congress are looking to clasp onto each azygous spot they have, including this one. But Democrats are trying to prime up seats wherever they tin to summation control. By looking astatine the registration data, and the adjacent results from 2 years ago, Democrats person narrowed successful connected this spot arsenic 1 to flip.
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5.
