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Storrs, Conn. (WTNH)– The candidates for governor are hitting the campaign trail hard.

All five attended a forum in Storrs on Thursday following last night’s debate where the three republicans of the race went head to head.

Thursday’s forum included Greenwich businessman Tom Foley, Lieutenant Gov. Michael Fedele and Hartford-area business advocate Oz Griebel. But this time, the democrats and the independent candidate joined in.

The forum was held at the Nathan Hale Conference Center in Storrs and each candidate had only 30 seconds to answer a question. “They seemed to put a few of the candidates on the spot which I think is better than a polished speech, so I was impressed,” said Paul Kozelka an observer from Mansfield.

All six have hung their hat on job creation in the state. Griebel says, he’s giving specifics. “I won’t propose a budget with one more dollar of spending in it over the next four years,” said Republican Candidate for Gov. Griebel. “I think that’s a pretty bold statement and I think it’s gonna take a lot of hard work.”

Meantime, Michael Fedele has gone after Tom Foley in ads highlighting alleged past businesses practices. “We need to be able to particularly point out that when someone makes business creation their central theme to, that’s not the case, and there’s a difference between creating jobs and creating personal wealth,” said Fedele the now Lt. Gov. and one of the Republican Candidates for Gov.

Foley rebuts Fedele’s ad and calls it and inaccurate attack ad. “I think it’s an unfortunate part of the political process when somebody’s pretty far behind, their only option when it gets close to election time is to run negative ads,” said Foley a Republican Candidate for Governor.

However, just talking about the issues has been an issue with democrats. Dan Malloy has been agitating for a one-on-one debate with Ned Lamont. “We’ve had dozens of debates, here he is asking me while we’re at a debate,” said Ned Lamont one of the Democratic Candidates for Governor. “If we’re going do another debate and you know, we’ll see, we’ve done 25, 30, and we just did the forum here.”

Dan Malloy says that’s simply not enough. “In this format, we handled six questions, if it had been two of us on the stage of the theater the other night, an invitation that he originally accepted, we probably could’ve gotten to 20 questions,” said Dan Malloy the other Democratic Candidate for Governor.

Independent Tom Marsh is not involved in most debates, but he did jump on board on Thursday. He says, it’s not the candidates themselves it is two-party politics that is the problem. “You really can’t tell on some of the issues what party they belong to but politics gets in the way,” said Tom Marsh the Independent Candidate for Governor.

The real question that remains is, how did Thursday’s forum sit with the voters. Steve Rogers came undecided and says he left undecided too. “I learned a lot of new things, I was very impressed with everybody,” said Rogers of Storrs.

The primary is August 10th and the general election takes place in November.