They talked about plans and policy. They instigated and insinuated. They flickered and flared and fired off social-media-inspired salvos to breach each other’s defenses.
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Republican nominee Aiona, an underdog in both polling and campaign finances, was the more aggressive of the two candidates, repeatedly linking current consumer woes with a supposedly botched response to the pandemic by the Gov. David Ige-Lt. Gov. Green administration
Green, for the most part, attempted to distinguish himself as the more prepared candidate by readily responding to questions with specific policy proposals, statistics and insights gleaned as the more recent participant in high-level decision-making but was also willing to attack his opponent directly
The candidates jabbed and weaved through a segment in which they were allowed to ask each other questions
The antipathy peaked near the end of the debate when Aiona, picking up on Green’s answer to a question about what he would do to bring people together, brought up Green’s supposedly distant relationship with Gov. David Ige
