WATCH: Indiana's Republican US Senate Hopefuls Refuse To Split From Trump In Final Debate

Luke Messer, Todd Rokita, and Mike Braun made their final appeal to Indiana's voters on Monday.

On Monday, April 30, Indiana U.S. Senate candidates (left to right) Luke Messer, Todd Rokita, and Mike Braun debated for the final time before the primary election. Photo by Darron Cummings, The Associated Press.

(Indianapolis, Ind.) – Who would be the better friend to President Donald Trump? Indiana’s Republican U.S. Senate candidates each insist it would be them.

In Monday evening's Indiana Debate Commission statewide debate, Mike Braun, Luke Messer and Todd Rokita largely focused their remarks during on casting doubt about the support of the other candidates for the president.

Despite the plea from moderator Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, the candidates refused to remark on even one area where they disagree with Trump.

“The president knows that I had his back when he needed it most against ‘Crooked’ Hillary Clinton,” Rokita said.

“The media wants to divide us from the President of the United States. I want to focus far more on the places where I agree with the president,” said Messer, adding that he is leading a call for Trump to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to ease tensions with North Korea.

Braun, a former state representative and successful businessman, said President Trump is his inspiration for running for U.S. Senate. He continued to try and sell himself as the outsider who can help “drain the swamp.” He said President Trump was clear in his campaign statement that Washington does not need more career politicians.

“We need people that have lived things in the real world,” Braun said. “Regardless of what these guys have thrown out, it mostly doesn’t make sense because they haven’t done anything in the real world. They’ve been endorsing the back side of government or political checks for their entire career. I’ve been signing the front side, creating jobs, having families work for me year after year.”

Rokita and Messer hammered Braun as a “lifelong Democrat” for his history of voting in Democratic primaries.

Whoever wins the Tuesday, May 8 Republican primary will get the opportunity to run against Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly in the November general election. The outcome of the election could help tip the scale in the U.S. Senate - either keeping it under Republican control or giving the majority to Democrats.

Following the debate, Rokita and Messer’s campaigns put out statements declaring themselves the debate winner. The Indiana Democratic Party asserted that Joe Donnelly was the real winner.

“Congressmen Messer and Rokita and Rep. Braun had every opportunity to present a positive message for Indiana, just as they have for the last year — and yet all we got is another mud slinging contest where no candidate could find one single instance where they’d split with President Trump in any issue. When they should be giving their closing arguments in the last event of the primary, they simply gave their most confrontational debate yet,” said Democratic Party Chairman John Zody.

Photo by Darron Cummings, The Associated Press.