Two of the three candidates running for Indiana’s open U.S. Senate seat went head-to-head in a debate Tuesday evening.

Democrat Valarie McCray and Libertarian Andrew Horning were the ones who showed up for the debate. Republican Jim Banks was invited as well but chose not to take part. Both candidates were not allowed to speak about Banks’ absence during the debate, but afterward, they both spoke to Indy Politics.

“(Banks) didn’t show up to defend his policies. I think that was an insult and absolutely disrespectful to the Hoosier voters, and I have a problem with that,” McCray said. “I was prepared to debate Jim Banks, but he is a no-call, no-show on this.”

“If you don’t show up for the job interview, you shouldn’t get the job,” Horning said “It was an arrogant, jerky thing.”

As far as the issues the two discussed in the debate, they covered several topics including immigration, inflation, and shoring up social security and Medicare.

When it comes to inflation, McCray, who is a psychologist by trade, doubled down that inflation in the United States has not been as bad as has been advertised.

“The main thing is that inflation is less here than around the globe, and we’ve managed to do that,” she said. “But keep in mind that most of what we see — the kitchen table issues — are mostly about price gouging, at a time when (companies) are making record profits.”

Horning lambasted the whole Federal Reserve system as the problem.

“This is also a problem that the plutocrats that are running this whole system are benefiting from,” he said. “The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer, and it’s by design. That’s just how the Fed works, and we need to end it.”

As for immigration McCray again sided with the Biden administration’s efforts to shore up legal immigration in the U.S. and criticized Republicans for blocking a bipartisan immigration reform bill in Congress, but he took it a step further.

“Whatever they put together was going to work and (Donald) Trump stopped that bill from being passed,” she said.

Horning placed the blame on illegal immigration at the feet of the U.S. government.

“We’ve been bombing half the planet,” Horning said. “We’ve made refugees out of half the planet. We’ve got a lot of people here that are angry, and we’re paying to bring them in.”

Election day is less than a week away.