When Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) made a campaign stop at the Brainerd Road Rib & Loin Tuesday evening, he was met with a group of his primary opponent Joe Carr’s supporters who said they showed up to ask him about his vote for amnesty last year. Though Alexander dodged the question in his private campaign event, he told a reporter afterward that he didn’t vote for amnesty, he voted to “stop perpetual amnesty.”

While Alexander faces six challengers in August, his strongest is State Representative Joe Carr, who has been hammering him on his vote for the immigration reform bill last year. Even at his own events, Alexander can’t seem to shake the question.

A group of Carr’s campaigners found their way into an adjacent parking lot to the rib joint Tuesday to voice their discontent with his immigration stance. Co-founder of “Beat Lamar,” Michael Patrick Leahy, accused Alexander of dodging the question:

"We are here because Lamar Alexander won't answer our questions. He won't debate Joe Carr. He voted 'yes' on amnesty and won't explain why. He said we could walk down the street and just ask him a question. Well, we walked down the street and he's ignoring us."

During the private event, Alexander told supporters that he was confident that Republicans would take the Senate in fall, and laid out some of the key initiatives he hoped they could push through, including replacing Obamacare, fixing the debt, and promoting job creation. According to a local NBC affiliate, immigration reform was not among them.

After his remarks, Alexander did take a moment to address his immigration vote last year, saying to Channel 3 that he didn’t vote for amnesty, but against it:

"Last year, Senator Corker and I voted to stop perpetual amnesty, which is what we have for about 11 million illegal people here in the country. We voted to double border security. If that bill had passed, the border would be more secure today than it was a year ago."

As Laura Ingraham noted, Alexander might've finally addressed the question, but he sure doesn’t look overly happy about doing it: