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US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer faced off against Republican rival Joe Pinion Sunday night in the sole debate between the candidates before election day.
Pinion spent much of the time blaming the Democratic powerbroker for inflation, immigration, opioid deaths and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“You bring home the bacon sure – but many people’s bellies are empty,” Pinion, 39, said.
Pinion was asked about political violence following an attack by an alleged rightwing extremist on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“It is Chuck Schumer whose divisive rhetoric has led to the environment that we see today,” he claimed.
But Schumer held his ground in the hour-long debate moderated by Errol Louis and Susan Arbetter of Spectrum News at Union College in Schenectady.
“He was a pundit. We’re hearing a lot of punditry, a lot of pointing fingers, a lot of verbiage, but no real solutions. Not only have I proposed real solutions, I’ve passed them,” Schumer said of the former Newsmax host.
“I have been more productive as a senator and as majority leader than just about anybody else,” Schumer said at one point while highlighting legislative wins like a blockbuster bill driving microchip production to places like upstate New York.
