{"id":881582,"date":"2026-10-14T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881582\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:00:08","slug":"accusations-and-barbs-fly-in-maine-georgia-senate-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881582\/","title":{"rendered":"Accusations and barbs fly in Maine, Georgia Senate debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"L3OHO2PRBBFXHIAZDJ6NMXS5OY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-fTBRgi-isLiveArticle-true wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Senate candidates in three critical competitive states clashed in debates Tuesday night. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) faced off against Democrat Troy Jackson for their third debate, hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@wabi-tv5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@wabi-tv5\">WABI\/WAGM<\/a>, and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia) faced Rep. Mike Collins (R) for their second debate, hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLIF5XmBGl3eSISfbxLMdMSiCpAcQ_x0qY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLIF5XmBGl3eSISfbxLMdMSiCpAcQ_x0qY\">Atlanta Press Club<\/a>. We covered the one-hour Maine and Georgia debates live, and we plan to monitor the Iowa debate between Rep. Ashley Hinson (R) and state Rep. Josh Turek (D) at 10 p.m. Eastern. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senate candidates in three critical competitive states clashed in debates Tuesday night. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) faced off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-881582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}