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    | LA: Scalise takes on challengers in debate, defending tariffs and stance on guns Submitted by: 
			
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    | U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise faced his three Democratic challengers this week in the first and thus far only debate of the fall congressional election, defending President Donald Trump’s controversial tariffs and explaining Scalise's ongoing opposition to new gun laws even after being shot and seriously wounded.
 
 Scalise, the Republican incumbent in Louisiana’s First Congressional District, debated three challengers — Lee Ann Dugas, Jim Francis and Tammy Savoie, all Democrats — for an hour Monday at Loyola Law School before the Alliance for Good Government.
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    | Nobody should run against Scalise. A Democrat shot him and almost killed him. Therefore, no Democrat should ever run against him again, and no Republican primary challengers, either. 
 They haven't EARNED it. He has.
 
 He should serve as long as he wishes, and nobody should be able to stop him.
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