She did pretty well with the debates in 2014, but her real goal will probably be fishing for ad content in each debate
Its a well documented phenomenon that the candidate who's behind or is expected to have a tough race asks for more and more debates. Not many people really watch local debates, besides those that have already established partisan loyalties. Instead, the point of multiple debates is to seek a gotcha moment that can then make the main local news networks which people actually watch. A good recent example is Ayotte and her mishandling of the Trump issue in 2016.
What happened with Ayotte? (I only joined in 2017)
IIRC, she publicly called out Trump for the Access Hollywood tape, but then ran and supported him like 2 weeks later right before the election.
She also, at a debate, said Trump was a role model, after calling him out for the AH tape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Y6NKxHd6Y
Yup and then a Trump supporting independent got on the ballot and got 17k votes while ayotte only lost by 3k votes
