(AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr and Democratic challenger Nancy Jo Kemper sparred Monday night over issues ranging from health care to Donald Trump's fitness to lead America's foreign policy in a hard-hitting televised debate, two weeks from Election Day. Kemper, a pastor, went on the offensive at the start of the hour-long debate, accusing the two-term Republican congressman of running a TV ad in Kentucky's 6th District that took her words from a television interview out of context. Barr defended the ad and then linked his challenger to President Barack Obama's policies on health care and financial regulation, which the congressman said have slowed economic growth. In a state that's turned increasingly Republican, Kemper went on to praise the Democratic presidential nominee's credentials, saying: "We have not had a better-prepared person to be president and commander in chief in some time than Hillary Clinton." Barr called it an absurdity for his challenger to suggest that his opposition to the Dodd-Frank law — which gave regulators new oversight powers over the banking industry — was based on contributions from the financial sector.
Barr, Kemper Meet In Hard-hitting Debate
By BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press, San Antonio Express-News: World
Mon, 10/24/2016 - 8:05pm
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