INTERVIEW – MARK OBENSHAIN – member of the Senate of Virginia from Harrisonburg
- TOPIC: Last night’s Final Virginia gubernatorial debate: In their final debate for Va. governor, Northam and Gillespie spar over records, economy, taxes (Washington Post) — WISE, Va. — Virginia’s two major-party candidates for governor went after each other in their third and final debate before the Nov. 7 election but never focused on the one name that has hung over the race from the start: Donald Trump. Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie kept a civil tone but clashed over themes of economic progress for rural Virginia in a debate held Monday night in the state’s ailing coal country. Northam, who during the campaign has repeatedly tried to tie Gillespie to an unpopular President Trump, uttered the name only in passing this time as he instead took every opportunity to paint his opponent as a creature of Washington and K Street.
