Plans for Friday's debate started to crumble after the committee lined up conservative commentator and talk show host Larry O’Connor to co-moderate.
The organizers — the Prince William Committee of 100 and the League of Women Voters of the Prince William-Fauquier Area — said in a statement that the debate committee’s work had “ended in an impasse over security concerns and disagreements over proposed moderators.”
Spanberger objected to that choice last week, citing occasions when O’Connor had spoken negatively about Democrats or her, including during interviews with Vega on his show.
“Due to the Vega campaign’s pressure to corrupt the Prince William Committee of 100’s efforts and stall the debate into nonexistence, with just five days to go before the scheduled debate, it became increasingly clear a debate was never going to become a reality,” Spanberger’s campaign said in a statement to The Post on Monday, accusing Vega of trying to install O’Connor.
Debates over debates — a fixture of many competitive congressional races — have been particularly intense in Virginia’s 7th District and, more unusual, have now twice culminated with no agreement.Vega would not agree to debate Spanberger at the University of Mary Washington — a session co-sponsored by a number of community organizations and news outlets — with Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist at the university, serving as moderator.
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