Duckworth pushes Kirk to more debates

Posted on October 6, 2016
Tammy Duckworth and Mark Kirk
U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth and U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk met with the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board last week. (WJBC file photos)

By RFD Radio/WFMB

SPRINGFIELD – As election season amps up it’s also debate season, but they have been hard to come by in the U.S. Senate race in Illinois between the incumbent Republican Mark Kirk and Democratic challenger and U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth.

Last week the two sat together for a joint appearance at the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board. Duckworth took to pushing Kirk for more debates while they sat in front of the Tribune.

“Wherever you would like to go debate Senator, I will go there,” Duckworth said to Kirk. “It’s just the two of us. we can do this.”

Kirk said he should do another televised debate in Chicago but that he was tied to the voting schedule in the Senate. He gave far from a solid commitment to do so.

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