A 48-hour marathon of debates between the candidates for governor came to an end on Thursday as all three candidates from the major political parties in the state debated on WISH-TV.

Republican Mike Braun and Democrat Jennifer McCormick debated on Fox 59 on Wednesday. Both were back on Thursday night for a debate on WISH-TV and this time they were joined by Libertarian Donald Rainwater.

One of the topics that sparked some heat revolved around school choice, a subject that was not discussed in the previous debate.

As former State Superintendent of Public Instruction, McCormick was terse in her claim that public money should only go to public schools. She said families of four that make $220,000 a year, the bench mark for school vouchers under new state law, should not be allowed to use voucher money to send their kids to private school.

“Our state constitution is clear. It says to fund Common Schools which are determined to be public schools,” she said.

Braun said parents should have the final decision on where they send their kids to school, even with school voucher money.

“We are a state that has been on the leading edge of putting the parent as the main stakeholder on his or her child’s education,” Braun said. “Choice. Competition. Parents in the driver’s seat.”

Braun added that money needs to “follow the child, not the building.”

Rainwater chimed in saying that McCormick is correct in saying that state funding should go towards ‘Common Schools’, but said that no where in the state constitution does it say state funding can’t go towards other schools.

On the subject of immigration, both McCormick and Rainwater laid into Braun, who has been one of Indiana’s U.S. senators for the last six years. Braun led off the discussion by saying the solution to the border is a simple one.

“If the man has been a senator for the last six years, why hasn’t he solved it then,” Rainwater said. “Both the state and federal government have failed in their constitutional duty to uphold the rule of law when it comes to immigration.”

McCormick put Braun on blast for not supporting a bipartisan border security bill authored by Democrats.

“That bill had a huge piece for fentanyl detection, which we desperately need here in Indiana and he voted no,” she said.

Braun doubled down on his decision saying the bill would have let “5,000 illegal immigrants into the country daily, which I’m sure no Hoosier supports.”

They also discussed property taxes on two occasions. McCormick used the time to take a jab at Braun for having to revise his original property tax plan.

“He had to come back out with ‘Plan 2.0’. I’m not sure which plan we are on now. It’s kind of like commercials, we just keep redoing them,” McCormick said, referring to claims her campaign has made accusing Braun’s campaign of illegally doctoring images of McCormick in their campaign ads.

Braun never addressed the jab, instead clarifying his plan for property taxes which would be to cap property taxes at 2-percent of accessed value for elderly homeowners, 3-percent for younger homeowners.

Rainwater urged the state to pass a flat tax cap.

“Cap property taxes a 1-percent of the purchase price of the property and it should not go up,” Rainwater said. “You’re property taxes should never go up.”

The candidates also discussed abortion, affordable housing, and how they would reorganize the state government to make the government smaller.