Well, voters in New Jersey's seventh congressional district finally got to see a head to head matchup of the two candidates vying for Congress this November, incumbent Republican Congressman Tom Kean Jr. And his challenger, Democrat Sue Altman, former head of the new Jersey Working Families Party.

Now, this debate was the first and only time the two candidates will spar.

And viewers got to see a fiery exchange on topics like abortion, affordable housing, U.S. support of foreign wars and much more.

Senior correspondent Brenda Flanagan has more on the chemo mix from the night.

Candidates in New Jersey's tightest congressional race clashed in the campaign's only face to face debate.

Democrats, who Altman tangled with one term incumbent Republican Tom Kean Jr, each labeling the other too extreme for their districts constituents over issues like abortion and immigration.

Kean attacked Altman as a former head of the left leaning Progressive Working Families Alliance.

She's for defunding the police.

She supported a cop goes out of jail.

He's legalization of narcotics.

Those are extreme positions that are out of step with people of the seventh Congressional District.

Tom Kean Junior has an unsolvable problem.

The values of his voters and the values of his donors are not the same.

His donors, the National Republican Party and extremist billionaires represent an insane point of view.

Altman explained that she's broken with the left over defunding the police, and now supports a comprehensive approach to public safety.

She says she never backed legalizing narcotics and attacked Cain for supporting Donald Trump for president.

I'm disappointed in you, Congressman.

You don't have to repeat the lies that your overlords tell you.

You don't get a point for every time you use the word extremism.

We need someone who will stand up to Trump.

We need someone who will stand for women's rights.

On that topic, the two candidates slammed each other's positions on abortion.

Kean said he's pro-choice and opposes a national abortion ban.

She supports a position that would allow people to get abortions for any reason up until birth, including the seventh, eighth and ninth months.

That's an extreme position.

At what point is it the federal government's job to make sure women are protected and women's rights are protected?

And I find it very ironic that you think that that is an extremist point of view.

CD seven leans read and both candidates struck more moderate tones on several issues.

But when asked about Trump's controversial plan to deport immigrants, Kean called for more Border Patrol agents and to build a border wall without addressing Trump's policy.

Altman pounced.

You just dodged the question.

Mr. Rasmussen asked you a very specific question.

Would you support deporting migrants?

Yes or no?

Kean stared silently ahead for about 10s.

Not the best look, admitted Republican strategist Chris Russell.

I thought he could have filled in the space a little better than he did there.

If he supports it, okay, if he doesn't say it.

But in that sense, I think it was part of her strategy.

But she wants this to be a referendum on, her race to be a, Trump Harris referendum.

It was Altman's best shot to reach a wider audience.

But Russell said Kean kept his cool.

And I thought every time she tried to rattle Kean and kind of get him off of his, game, I thought he, you know, he stayed pretty, disciplined in terms of his approach in the debate and didn't let her get under his skin.

You have to be aggressive, and you have to be energetic, and you have to go for it.

Democratic strategist Dan Bryan says Altman had to establish herself.

I think that you're seeing two very different energies from the two different candidates right now.

One is being aggressive, being energetic, going for the throat when she has to.

And then you see a candidate who is again, I'll go back to that moment where he just stared straight ahead blankly at the camera.

But will this debate, organized by New Jersey Globe on New Jersey and RIder's Rebovich Institute actually move the needle?

The first rule of political debates is do no harm.

It's like the Hippocratic Oath.

Just make sure you don't do something really bad that hurts your campaign.

And so I think they really both accomplished their goal for the evening for the debate.

I'm not sure whether it's going to make much of a difference.

Political analyst Ben Dworkin thinks neither side committed a fatal error in this debate.

He called the debate a draw.

I'm Brenda Flanagan, NJ Spotlight News.