Democrat Susie Lee and Republican Danny Tarkanian each accused each other of “conning” Nevadans amid an otherwise policy-focused debate touching on issues from health care to Yucca Mountain during the second half of their first debate that aired Saturday.

Lee accused Tarkanian of “trying to con voters” when he said that he would stand up to the partisan politics of Washington, D.C., pointing to a primary debate from earlier this year in which Tarkanian said he would be a “solid vote” for the president. In response, Tarkanian said that he had “never said that I was a reliable vote for Donald Trump” and that he is only a “reliable vote for the American First policies he has articulated” and accused Lee of “conning the people” through her nonprofit work.

The first half of the debate, hosted by KLAS-TV and moderated by journalists Steve Sebelius and Patrick Walker, aired Sept. 22.

Tarkanian said that Lee’s nonprofit work at Communities in Schools of Nevada, a dropout prevention organization, and MASH Village, which was at one time the biggest provider of shelter and other services to the homeless in Las Vegas, had taken “millions and millions of dollars from the public school system and the city and the county taxpayer.” He called MASH Village a “failing program” that “didn’t accomplish anything.”

Earlier in the debate, Lee suggested Tarkanian had “conned everyone you worked with,” an apparent reference to various stories over business dealings turned sour since he first ran for office in 2004.

Tarkanian also said that he would vote against Trump when the president’s policies fell outside of the “America First” framework, pointing to the president’s decision to sign an omnibus spending bill as one area of disagreement.

On health care, Tarkanian said that he sees a path forward to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with something else that includes protections for pre-existing conditions, though he told a Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist last month that he does not believe that private insurance companies should be required to cover those individuals. Lee acknowledged that the federal health-care law is “not perfect,” but suggested as her only change that she would like to see subsidies that help low- and middle-income families afford insurance.

During the debate, Tarkanian reiterated his position that he would like to see Yucca Mountain turned into a reprocessing facility for high-level spent nuclear fuel, while Lee called that a “naive concept” and stressed her continued opposition to turning the remote mountain site into a long term repository for nuclear fuel.

The two also agreed that water shortage is a long-term issue facing Southern Nevada but disagreed on what to do about it, with Tarkanian backing building a pipeline from the Washington-Vancouver area to better address California’s water needs and free up the Colorado River for Nevada and Lee suggesting the construction of a desalination plant in Mexico to free up the country’s allocation.

Neither candidate specifically addressed whether they would vote to shut down the government when asked about it during the debate, though both said they would like to see changes in Washington, D.C. that overcome partisan divides.

Lee also declined to state whether she would support House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to remain as the party’s leader in the House, saying that she does not know what other choices might be available and that she would want to put the “cart ahead of the horse.” Tarkanian reiterated his position in favor of 12-year term limits for members of both the House and Senate.

Watch the first half of the debate on KLAS-TV’s website here and the second half of the debate here.

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