i brandon williams, congressman am for central new york.nd i just want to start by remembering the families that are facing incredible hardship in our heartland, in western north carolina, tennessee and elsewhere, as well as those are bracing for the historic storm in florida. i began my career as an nuclear submarine officer in the navy, i spent the last 20 or so years as a businessman and entrepreneur, i am a political outsider. three years ago, i didn't know anyone in politics. so why did i run for congress? i am concerned for our children's future. my wife and i have been married for 32 years, have two grown children, and i am generally concerned about our constitutional republic and what that looks like going forward. the fact is our nation needs better leaders, leaders of the lead on common sense, on energy, on inflation and the economy, on the border, and on crime. i hope that is what you hear tonight. since being elected in congress, we have solved 1500 constituent cases. i have brought back $45 million of funding to our local commu

the candidates, john mannion and brandon williams. s continue our debate. >> we will start with congressman williams. part of the anxiety over this year's election is the day after. will you certify the results of former president donald trump denies the legitimacy as he did four years ago? rep. williams: of course i will. i have never challenged or questioned the results of the 2020 election, never questioned that joe biden is the duly elected president. i am concerned about election integrity and there's a lot of things particularly as it has come up repeatedly, the concern that illegal immigrants are voting in our elections certainly should be reserved for citizens, as our constitution actually calls out. i have never had any issues with that. i would like to see voter id laws, would like to see just greater election integrity because that is really at the heart of our democratic system. >> senator mannion, what would your strategy be if you win but you see trump question the result as he did four years ago? sen. mannion: i have bee

candidates are new york state senator john manion and our current congressional representative brandon williams . welcome. thank you for taking the time tonight. >> thank you. chris: early voting for the election begins saturday october 26 and election day is to learn tuesday, november 5. more about where and how to vote visit elections. ny.gov. we will start the debate with opening statements from each candidate and then move on to question and answer. each candidate will have 90 seconds for responses and time for rebuttal at my discretion we flipped a coin to determine who begins. brendan williams will go first. the floor is yours. >> thank you, chris and to syracuse.com for hosting the important event and thank you to the students who are here. we are currently serving the united states house of representatives. two and a half years ago i was not in politics at all, i'm a political outsider, i'm a military veteran and i'm a businessman and as of thursday last week i'm a husband of 32 years. i ran for congress because i'm concerned about our children i'm concerned about their future i'm conce

new york in these districts, like the ones i, republican congressman anthony d'esposito and brandon williams represent. so the mat for control of the house doesn't really we line up with the road to the white house. >> yeah. >> it's such a good reminder that it doesn't look like that map to 273 we talk about these deep blue, deep red states. but when you zoom in as we see john king does the magic wall once you get to the congressional district level, it is a much bigger patchwork of blue, red, and purple anywhere. thank you so much thanks much. now, it is a dead heat in the final nationwide cnn poll before election day, before those votes are counted on november 5. and in the days following vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump are running. so you can see right there 47 to 47 with a margin of error of just about 3%. that is any cnn poll of likely voters conducted by ssrs. >> yeah, and according to axios, the type polling has people close to harris and her swing-state operations worried that she may come up short and lose and already apparently, people have begun poin

i brandon williams, congressman am for central new york.art by remembering the families that are facing incredible hardship in our heartland, in western north carolina, tennessee and elsewhere, as well as those are bracing for the historic storm in florida. i began my career as an nuclear submarine officer in the navy, i spent the last 20 or so years as a businessman and entrepreneur, i am a political outsider. three years ago, i didn't know anyone in politics. so why did i run for congress? i am concerned for our children's future. my wife and i have been married for 32 years, have two grown children, and i am generally concerned about our constitutional republic and what that looks like going forward. the fact is our nation needs better leaders, leaders of the lead on common sense, on energy, on inflation and the economy, on the border, and on crime. i hope that is what you hear tonight. since being elected in congress, we have solved 1500 constituent cases. i have brought back $45 million of funding to our local community, and i am glad

good evening i am brandon williams congressman for central new. york.nt to start by remembering that families face incredible hardships in our heartland in western north carolina, tennessee and elsewhere, as well as those bracing for stork storm in florida. i began my car as a nuclear submarine officer in the navy. i spent the last 20 or so years as a business minimum political outsider. three years ago i did not know anyone in politics. so why did i a run for congress? i'm concerned for our children's future my wife and i been married for 32 years i am genuinely concerned about our aconstitutional republic with that looks at going forward. the fact is our nationn leads medical l leaders lead on common sense on energy, on inflation and the economy. on board and on crime but i hope that's what you are tonight. since being elected in congress we have solved 1500 constituent cases are brought back $45 million in funding to our local community i'm glad to be with you tonight. >> told him to the question portion of the evening will start with congressman bra

>> next, a debate in the race to represent new york's 22nd congressional distri with cumbent brandon williams new york state senator john mani, the democratic challenger. the candidates raised nearly six point million between them.

candidates are new york state senator john manion and our current congressional representative brandon williams . welcome. thank you for taking the time tonight. >> thank you. chris: early voting for the election begins saturday october 26 and election day is to learn tuesday, november 5. more about where and how to vote visit elections. ny.gov. we will start the debate with opening statements from each candidate and then move on to question and answer. each candidate will have 90 seconds for responses and time for rebuttal at my discretion we flipped a coin to determine who begins. brendan williams will go first. the floor is yours. >> thank you, chris and to syracuse.com for hosting the important event and thank you to the students who are here. we are currently serving the united states house of representatives. two and a half yea ago i was not in politics at all, i'm a political outsider, i'm a military veteran and i'm a businessman and as of thursday last week i'm a husband of 32 years. i ran for congress because i'm concerned about our children i'm concerned about their future i'm concern

debate inhe race to represent new york's 22nd congressional district with incumbent represent brandon williamsnd new york state senator hnann, the democratic challengeer. the t candidates raids nearly $6.9 million up to the month prior to the debate and national outside groups have spent $8.5 llion on the race. it runs nearly an hour. runs ne. ♪ >> good evening and welcome to those watching in the greater syracuse and utica areas. welcome, candidates. >> both of you have agreed to rules for the debate including an opening coin toss. that determines the first question will be answered first by state senator john manion. the airwaves have been infiltrated with political ads, funded by your campaigns and action committees. congressman williams plans to cut medicare and social security, one claims. senator mannion lets out violent criminals and defunds police. address these head-on. se

but last time around brandon williams, the republican, won by only a point. so democrats think they can pick up a seat there. let's slow down. i81. alright, we're going to go to the big ten area. all right, here's another district, the 19th democrats think they have a pretty good shot. marc molinaro, look at that won by less than two points last time around, that's another district let's go down the hudson valley down at seven, right? mike lawler, last time around in the 17th district won by less than a percentage point so that's another thing how about district number four? we're going to go out to long island. let's see if i can hit this button correctly. idea. we're gonna go to the fourth district. anthony d'esposito, last time around won by less than four percentage points. so those are four races that were determined by less than five points last time around, where are they at this particular moment? let's take a look at some house forecasts. alright, these are an aggregator mission of forecasts. and look what we have on your screen, aaron, we got a lot

williams had a rest day. jake moody is still out with a high ankle sprain. meantime, nick bosa, jordan mason and chris conley were limited at practice. as we know, brandoniyuk is officially out for the season after he tore his acl and damaged his mcl. and while the injuries are piling up, fred warner is still staying positive. >> i'm as optimistic as they come. it doesn't matter what's going on. you know, the burning building down or burning down, i would still just be standing tall, trying to keep everything afloat. so we're really not in that type of situation at all. yeah, the injuries suck. and to keep players especially. but you got you got to move on. that's what this league is. it's violent and people get hurt and you got to it's a next man up mentality. >> and one key player could finally return soon. there's a chance the niners could get christian mccaffrey back from injury report in a few weeks. head coach kyle shanahan said when he comes back, it will certainly be after the bye week, which is next week, and a 13 year old girl in hayward is being called a hero for alerting her neighborhood before a large fire caused extensive damage. alyssa tr

williams. he had a rest day. kicker jake moody is still out with a high ankle sprain. meantime, nick bosa, jordan mason and chris conley were all limited at practice and brandon aiyuk is officially out for the season after he tore his acl and damaged his mcl. but one key player could finally return. there is a chance the niners could get christian mccaffrey back from injury report in a few weeks, head coach kyle shanahan said. when he comes back, it will certainly be after the bye week, which is next week. so still some time for the running back to return. >> injury here, injury there. it doesn't matter. you got to suit up and play those cowboys. we put 40 points on them last regular season. i expect more of the same. yeah. hello and welcome to like it or not, i'm dave clark. the show is where we talk about what you're talking about. the latest hot topics, what's trending now, and with me today is, well, i have three people who are all smarter than me at financial consultant jason matthews, my good friend. thank you. ali rasmus, one of the great anchors and reporters and one of the great investigative and consumer

brandon aiyuk went down in the second quarter, appeared to have sustained a torn right acl. that would be it for the season if that's the case, trent williams right there got ejected after punching chiefs safety brian cook in the helmet. cook had punched him first, but only williams was ejected. fans had the most critiques for their quarterback after he threw three interceptions. brock purdy was thrown to the a spot not throwing it to open receivers. but then all three are receivers. went out today, so that kind of killed us too. i think purdy didn't have a great game. he threw a few picks and yeah, i just think their defense did good though. yeah, anthony flores is going to have all the highlights for us. and an injury update on brandon aiyuk that's coming up in sports. we're back in 60s. still ahead has california's fast food wage hike affecting jobs and food pricing. the new study is out as voters decide whether to raise the state minimum wage and shedding light on stronger storms. the research happening every day in california that could give some answers. low 50s right now in santa rosa will turn into some cool 40s with some patchy low

my thanks to republican congressman brandon williams, and democratic state senator john mannion for sharing their time. as a reminder to the viewers, october 26 is the start of early voting and the last day to register to vote. election day is november 5. if you would like to visit any part of tonight's coverage, visit w s -- visit wcny.org. on behalf of everyone at wcny, i am david lombardo. thanks for watching and good night. ♪ [captions