Vice President Vance to Rally in Topeka on Monday for Senator Roger Marshall's Re-election
Vice President JD Vance will travel to Topeka, the Kansas capital, on Monday, October 26, to hold a rally for Republican U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, who is seeking re-election. It will be Vance's second trip to Kansas in about two months to campaign for Marshall, following a visit to Johnson County last month; a week ago, President Donald Trump campaigned for nearly two hours for Marshall near Wichita and asked voters to 'pretend that I'm on the ballot.' The Topeka event is scheduled for the afternoon and is open to the public.
Kansas is a traditional Republican stronghold, but this year's Senate race is unusually close. Democratic candidate Adam Hamilton, a United Methodist pastor, and Marshall are neck-and-neck in the polls; if Hamilton wins, he would be the first Democratic U.S. senator from Kansas in nearly a century. According to Politico, numerous national Republicans have privately urged Marshall to take his race more seriously, and the Senate Leadership Fund has mounted a major push in recent weeks.
'We're pulling out all the stops,' Marshall told talk radio. 'We're assuming that this is as close as these polls say they are.' Hamilton campaign spokesperson Glynnis Harvey responded that sending the vice president twice in six weeks to campaign for a senator 'tells you everything you need to know about how Roger Marshall's campaign is going,' and said Kansans are ready for change.
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 美国副总统 JD Vance 2026年3月官方肖像，作者 Emily J. Higgins（白宫），公共领域，来源 Wikimedia Commons
