UA Common Ground, a non-partisan political organization, hosted its third annual “Freaky Friday” debate on Friday. Members of UA College Republicans and UA College Democrats were tasked with arguing the opposite point of view on various political and current event topics.
UACR was declared the winner of the debate for the third year in a row. Underhill won the “Best Fake Democrat Award.”
“I think it’s very important to encourage conversation and to understand the other side,” said Sam Hoefs, director of communications for UACD. “Every time we leave a Freaky Friday debate, I end up talking to my friends and they’re like, wait a second, I’m sort of starting to get where they’re coming from.”
Hoefs won the “Best Fake Republican Award” for her debate against gun control.
“The reality is, when we look at the facts and the data, crime goes down when the good guys have guns,” she said during the debate.
In response, UACR member Jacob Bailey argued in favor of restricting access to “dangerous and unusual weapons,” citing the District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court Case, which affirms that citizens should be able to possess only an “ordinary type of weapon and use it for lawful, historically established situations such as self-defense in a home.”
The next topic, introduced by Marissa Grayson, a professor of political science at the University, was the SAVE America Act, which would require voters to present proof of citizenship before voting in elections.
Carson Posman, secretary of UACR, argued against the SAVE Act, while UACD member Daniel Didinato argued the act would ensure fairness in elections.
Posman said that the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, analyzed billions of voters to identify fraud and only found a small number of cases. To counter this claim, Didinato said that “no amount of non-citizen voting has any place in our American democracy.”
The final topic was foreign policy in regard to the Iran war. Sam McKinney, president of UACD, debated Sam Underhill, a member of UACR.
Laurel Holcomb, a graduate student studying political science, said she came to watch the debate because she loves Common Ground’s mission to hold civil discourse about political issues.
“I think each of them really did try to do justice to the other side and the perspectives that the other side would likely support in real life,” she said.
Jason Odom, the president of Common Ground, said that there is a lot of negativity in political discourse, but that it doesn’t have to be that way.
“It’s a mission to get people together and people talking to one another, proving that we can do that still,” he said about the debate.
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