Jeff Hurd declined televised debate invitations and agreed to one 30-minute session before a friendly audience instead. John McGuire says he'll debate when his opponent apologizes for raising a BlackRock sale the disclosure records in his wife's retirement account. They join fourteen Republicans we have already documented ducking the one event they can't script.
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For 52 straight weeks, a 90-year-old woman and her neighbors have stood on a Little Rock street corner in rain, heat, sleet and snow, asking their representative, MAGA Congressman French Hill, to hold a single in-person town hall.
The chair of the House Rules Committee says there was 'a lot of support' for throwing the press out of the Speaker's Lobby, where reporters have traditionally caught members between votes. When her own constituents organized a town hall and invited her, she didn't come.
In four states, in three days, four Republicans on this site said no to a debate or forum their opponent was ready to do. A Michigan Senate debate went on with an empty podium, South Dakota's public broadcaster aired its Senate debate without the senator, and a second Wisconsin governor's debate was canceled.
Rep. Harriet Hageman, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, let Wyoming PBS's debate deadline pass without responding. The station doesn't hold one-candidate debates, so it canceled the Senate debate. She skipped the 2022 general-election debate and both PBS debates in 2024 too.
Sullivan missed four of the eight hearings held by the Senate's Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife Subcommittee since 2021, including the only one held this year. GovTrack has him missing 169 of 4,339 Senate votes, worse than the median senator.
The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation has run a governor's debate every cycle since 1990. It canceled this year's because Tiffany would not accept. The same day he said one debate is enough, he would not say whether he backs Trump's push to restrict mail-in voting.
Sullivan emailed thousands of Alaskans a town-by-town list of what he has secured for them, on Senate letterhead paid for by taxpayers, days before the 60-day pre-election blackout. The Senate Ethics Committee says letterhead may not be used for any campaign or campaign-related correspondence.
Casey Putsch spent the Republican primary saying 'Vivek won't debate me.' There was no GOP gubernatorial debate. The Libertarian nominee says he is still waiting for a commitment too.
