NY GOP Rep. Marc Molinaro, Dem challenger Josh Riley go for jugular over immigration, abortion in heated debate for key House seat: Hes lying!
Upstate GOP Rep.Marc Molinaro and Dem foe Josh Riley went for the jugular — accusing each other of “lying” about their record on immigration and abortion — during a heated debate in their battle for a key House seat.“You have consistently lied about my position,” Molinaro (R-NY) railed at Riley about attack ads claiming the first-term congressman would back a national abortion ban.At another point, Riley glared at the camera and told viewers Molinaro was “lying to you,” in reference to his position about immigration.The hourlong face-off, hosted by group of Albany-based media outlets Thursday night, will be the only one between the two men, who are battling for the 19th Congressional District, a swing seat that could be key in the Democrats’ fight to take back the House.The debate was at points a live reenactment of the millions of dollars of attack ads that have been plastering the upstate district for the last few weeks, whacking Molinaro on abortion and Riley on immigration.“He’s lying to you.
He’s lying to you,” Riley said after Molinaro tried to tie legal briefs the lawyer wrote on behalf of immigration officials during his time in DC to failures at the southern border.“The discretionary argument he made, this president and Alejandro Mayorkas put into practice,” Molinaro, the former Dutchess County executive, claimed, “A policy that said you could simply claim asylum and enter into this country.”Riley’s name appears as one of the authors on the filings from Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, a politically connected law firm where he was employed for several years following a stint as an attorney in the US Senate.Molinaro claimed Riley “sued” 32 times to reduce border security with the briefs, but the Broome County native referred to the figure as a “magic handbag of numbers.” Riley’s campaign recently sent a cease and desist letter to TV stations that are running an ad from the National Republican Campaign Committee with ...