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Top 3 Issues: Affordability, Safety, and Education

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Bet-David gives each candidate 60 seconds to rank their top three priorities from third to first. Jay Collins goes first: affordability, safety, and education. Paul Renner echoes affordability but adds public corruption and constitutional freedoms. James Fishback's answer is the most provocative — he ranks law and order first, citing DeSantis's 50-year low in crime; data centers second, promising as governor to not merely regulate but reject and remove every experimental data center; and fighting communism third, using the New York mayor's COVID-era thermostat restrictions as a real-time example of socialist overreach. Fishback's data center stance — a total ban rather than regulatory guardrails — immediately sets up the night's sharpest policy divide with Collins, who will argue for local-level decisions.

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