BATON ROUGE — Four candidates took the stage Friday night to discuss why they feel you should elect them to the Sixth Congressional District seat.

With the growing cost of living and inflation, we asked the candidates what they could do to bring down the cost of things like housing, groceries and gas.

Pat Forbes, the former Executive Director of the Louisiana Office of Community Development, says the war in Iran has to end.

"It is driving up the cost of gasoline, and diesel, and everything else with it. You can go out to any truck stop around here, and see all those trucks; they're all running on diesel, and they're carrying everything that we buy," Forbes said.

Former East Baton Rouge Metro Councilwoman Chauna Banks echoed that sentiment.

"War on Iran and tariffs on just about everybody else that is what raises the prices; that is what caused inflation; that is the problem," Banks said.

State Senator Rick Edmonds says there is overspending in the country's budget. He says the wasteful spending has to stop.

"That we make certain that we have fraud, waste, and abuse outlined, and we take that opportunity and to begin to eliminate things that are hampering us in our spending, and make certain that the American public can see some relief," Edmonds said.

Former educator and entrepreneur, Lindsay Garcia, had a few proposed solutions.

"Number one: reinstitute the ACA subsidies for healthcare; number two, we need to temporarily hold the federal gas tax so that we can feel immediate relief directly at the pump and then, more importantly, I want tariff refunds," Garcia said.

As for what projects the candidates say they would prioritize in district six, for some, it's housing and economic development.

Those are the projects that give people the sustainability to do everything else, so those are the two projects that I would work on hand in hand.

Others say it would be building structures resistant to natural disasters.

"We have to invest in resilience, and that is what I've been doing for 20 years, and that's what I would continue to do," Forbes said.

And education is also a big priority among some of the candidates.

"We must invest in early childhood; early childhood education is a critical service that we provide our children and our families," Edmonds said.

Garcia is also looking to prioritize education.

"Access to education from the very beginning; investing in our children is the future," Garcia said.