I don’t believe there should be any debates between candidates of the same party, all it does is provide fodder for the other....go out and campaign and win on your own merits, without having to tear down the other candidates, all it does is weaken the eventual nominee.
I refuse to vote for anyone that smears other candidates of the same party. For example in the last election. I did not vote for mayor. Our mayor ran for reelection and she had two opponents who smeared her and each other. She ran a clean campaign and deserved to be reelected, but I did not vote for her because she is a democrat; so were her two opponents, because when she was in the Tennessee State House there was not one tax increase she did not like.