LA CROSSE, WI — Yesterday, Congressman Derrick Van Orden accepted Hunter Nation’s invitation to debate Democrat Rebecca Cooke.

Van Orden has now accepted three debates, including invitations from the Wisconsin Gun Owners Association, Wisconsin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Hunter Nation.

All three organizations have offered to host neutral, nonpartisan debates, giving both candidates an opportunity to answer questions and make their case without either campaign controlling the format or the questions.

“Rebecca Cooke has now turned down three debate challenges from neutral, nonpartisan organizations. I have accepted all three,” said Van Orden. “Cooke has spent six years trying to hide the fact that she made $100,000’s as a paid political consultant while presenting herself to voters as a waitress. She knows a debate stage would expose the gap between the image she’s selling voters and the political career she’s actually built.” 

Positions Cooke Can’t Answer For:

  • Worked as a senior fellow for Democrat think tank Third Way and Wisconsin Tech Council, making at least $30,000 to cover up Wisconsin farmland with data centers.
  • Bankrolled by liberal billionaires, while cosplaying as a poor waitress.
  • Calling Trump voters fascists.
  • Calling Eau Claire “racist” while criticizing the presence of MAGA flags in her hometown.
  • Worked as a paid political consultant for Kirk Bangstad, who celebrated the attempted assassination of President Trump and fantasized assassinations of Republicans. 
  • Endorsed by AFSCME, which sued the Trump administration to let illegal aliens have CDLs and aided businesses on how to evade ICE
  • Endorsed by the NRDC, which pushes the Green New Scam
  • Endorsed by WEAC, a teachers union backing sex changes for minors and supports allowing men to play in women’s sports
  • Wants to sell Wisconsin farmland to China
  • Called her own hometown of Eau Claire “racist”
  • Has been exposed as a longtime Democrat political operative
  • Supported defunding the police
  • Supports socialist NYC Mayor, Zohran Mamdani
  • Endorsed by Bernie Sanders
  • Called ICE “disgusting” and “wrong”

Attached is the debate invitation from Hunter Nation.