Senator Kay Hagan (D., N.C.) admitted after a debate earlier this week that she attended a fundraiser rather than a classified hearing on the threat of ISIS, giving rise to a new Republican attack ad and an early barrage from Thom Tillis during their final debate.

“Senator Hagan put a cocktail fundraiser on Park Avenue ahead of a classified briefing where these threats were being discussed,” Tillis said in response to the first question of the debate Thursday night. “We can talk about missing a meeting or two; that happens, because you have scheduling conflicts. But what on earth could be more important than understanding the threat to our men and women in uniform and the threat that ISIS poses in the middle east and to world safety and security? Apparently, Senator Hagan thinks that a cocktail fundraiser hosted on Park Avenue by a Wall Street executive is a better priority than doing her job in Washington.”

Hagan countered that by emphasizing that she has “chaired numerous counterterrorism hearings” and explaining how she thinks the United States should respond to ISIS.

“I am well informed on these issues, but I think Speaker Tillis has been spineless, because he will not say what he would do,” she said. “He is not saying whether he would arm and train the rebels or whether he would put boots on the ground. I am decisive.”

“‘Spineless’ – let’s talk shameless,” Tillis responded later in the debate. “Sen. Hagan is asking the speaker of the House to come up with a strategy before she does.”

Hagan admitted that she had attended the fundraiser during a post-debate press conference earlier this week. She skipped the post-debate press conference last night.