there is a contrast here between randy bryce randy bryce and myself. once to raise your taxes. believe taxes are best kept in -- wants to raise your taxes. i believe taxes are best kept in your pocket and southeast wisconsin. i think the contrast is very clear. [applause] steve: thank you, audience. mary: let's hold your applause. steve: let's move to foreign policy. mr. bryce, there are 15,000 soldiers in afghanistan. should we withdraw from afghanistan? question number two, the saudi government admitted the american journalist jamal khashoggi was indeed murdered. what should be the penalty imposed on saudi arabia for the death of that journalist? two questions on foreign policy. mr. bryce: we have people who are enlisting at 18 years old and don't know a time when we , have not then at war with afghanistan. what is our exit strategy? how do we win their? -- how do we win there? that's what we need to find out. once we spend this money sending troops and buying equipment, we need to take care of them when they come back. i am a veteran. i know what it is like to wear the unifo

. >> reporter: democratic randy bryce is running in wisconsin's first congressional district, the seat currently held by house speaker paul ryan. when you entered this race, i gather you were a bit of a sacrificial lamb, you were the long shot and suddenly you're the front runner. >> we've been able to put together something that hasn't been put together in the 20 years that paul ryan has been here. >> reporter: bryce is an iron worker by trade and a former volunteer on bernie's 2016 campaign. >> i've heard they call you iron stache. >> i've been called that. >> reporter: and i also read that your campaign not only supports unions but is unionized. >> we're the first in american politics to unionize, absolutely. >> with your help and with help from people all across this country, we were able to repeal paul ryan. >> all over this country, people like randy who were never really involved in electoral politics before, you're seeing that. young people, people of color, women, suddenly they are running for office and they are winning. so i think come november 6th, washington, d.c., is goin

. >> the candidates for wisconsin's first congressional district, democrat randy bryce and republican bryan steil faced off in oak creek, wisconsin. this debate is one hour. ♪ announcer: campaign 2018 is sponsored by wisconsin hospital association, wisconsin counties

was just in wisconsin two weekends ago, i have been everywhere, but i was in racine county with randy brycee lieutenant governor candidate and tony evers. the energy is crazy. they're running very pointed, paid canvassing operations. they're turning folks out. that's what it's going to take to win these governors races. >> getting to kind of the closing argument bit. if you just look at how the president's closing argument last night, i mean, broad strokes about what he talked about last night. be afraid of voter fraud. be concerned about invasion of immigrants, and be concerned about left-wing socialists. there have been -- we know there was a lot of internal debate about what the message should be. phone calls from paul ryan to donald trump asking him to cut it out. if donald trump's message wins out, as we're discussing, if that message wins out and we see a red wall, what does that mean for the next -- what does that mean for the next two years? >> we're in a polarized country. that's the politics we're in. both countries now speak to their bases. barack obama spent a lot of time speaki