Kansas' first U.S. Senate and governor debates got pretty raucous
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Ladies and gentlemen. Can we have quiet and respect on both sides for them to answer the question?
That's a clip from the Kansas State Fair this weekend where candidates for the U.S. Senate and Governor faced off. The candidates spoke on a number of issues, including tariffs, property taxes, and agriculture, the largest economic driver in Kansas. Kansas Public Radio State House Bureau Chief Zach Boblet covered the debates. Today he joined Steve to unpack what the candidates had to say and how the crowd responded. That's listening. You know, I've covered more than my fair share of these state affair debates. The crowds tend to really get into these face offs. Tell us about the atmosphere and how crowded, how how packed was the arena out there.
Yeah, it was a raucous atmosphere. Uh particularly the the uh Senate debates. Um there was a lot of folks uh that maybe don't know about these debate formats. It's I would describe it as the freest form of debate you can it's free to get into the pavilion itself. You can just walk in there with a beer and a corndog and start uh start screaming at uh a candidate that you don't like. Or screaming for a candidate that you do like. Now, more specifically, like we heard uh to begin the segment, there were so many chants from the answer the question to shame on you uh towards uh Senator Roger Marshall to you don't live here again towards Marshall as well. Hamilton also got shouted down the Democratic candidate.
Uh but because there were less Marshall supporters, the noise was generally drowned out. Oh.
Interesting. Well in that US Senate debate, incumbent uh Senator Roger Marshall, the Republican, called Democrat uh Adam Hamilton woke and weak. How did the crowd respond to that?
Yeah, there were heavy boos uh during that statement. And then uh there was a quick retort. Uh course the the rebuttal, the candidate is usually given forty five seconds. Hamilton said, I don't need that forty-five seconds, and just said that Marshall would call Jesus woke. Uh and that got a big response uh from the Hamilton uh supporters.
You know, Adam Adam Hamilton meantime accused Roger Marshall of showing too much allegiance to President Trump. Let's listen to uh the Senator's response to that.
Can you remember a time when a sitting president would try to bribe Americans to vote for his party? Democrat or Republican? Nobody's done it before. This is absurd. So, when we think about bribing people with $5,000 checks, if they'll just please vote for my party, you've got to pay people to vote for your party because they're worried about your positions. So, when we think about this, I want to know how are we paying for this? We got a trillion dollars we're going to spend on this in order to bribe people to vote for your party? That's wrong. We got a $40 trillion debt. If you've got a trillion dollars laying around, pay it on the debt or restore. Medicaid benefits or help people who are poor. But don't be giving people five thousand dollars in order to get them to vote for you.
This is criminal. It should be called out. It's part of the corruption in Washington. And I would not vote for this. Absolutely not.
Yeah, that was one of the first questions in the debate, Zach. It had to do with that five thousand dollar dividend check that President Trump is talking about.
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