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The Spectrum: First presidential debate; Ohio Capitol session

The Spectrum: First presidential debate; Ohio Capitol session

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – This week on The Spectrum:

  • President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump faced off for the first time in nearly four years.

What were the most important moments and confrontations of the first presidential debate?


  • A legislative blitz during the Ohio Capitol’s final summer session with lawmakers voting on dozens of bills.

“The language in the bill is overly detailed and unclear,” said Rep. Beryl Brown Piccolantonio (D-Gahanna).

“This is easy, this is simple,” said Rep. Jena Powell (R-Arcanum). “This should not be complicated, period.”

Hear what high-priority legislation passed and what will have to wait until lawmakers return in the fall.

  • Explosive allegations of discrimination, hostile work environment and retaliation in Franklin County Common Pleas Court by one of its judges.

“I told him, ‘With all your paternalism and privilege, you do not have the right to come into my office and give me a list of black women I should not be more like,’” Judge Kimberly Cocroft said.

Listen to what she said that forced her to resign from a position to which she was elected by her fellow judges.

  • The first presidential debate is over, but did Biden or Donald Trump sway Ohio voters? Republican strategist Mike Gonidakis and Democratic strategist Greg Haas weigh in.