More than half of voters said in a recent poll they were not that familiar with either Republican Curtis Bashaw or Democratic Rep. Andy Kim, the two candidates running for the open U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey.

Democratic Rep. Andy Kim and Republican Curtis Bashaw have met in their first debate for New Jersey’s Senate seat.

New Jersey Republican Senate candidate Curtis Bashaw took to social media to confirm that he froze during his recent debate with Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) because he “never stopped to get a bite to eat.” The two men were squaring off Sunday during a 90-minute debate when Bashaw began slurring his words and stopped speaking.