A MAGA Senator Gets Booed Off Stage at the Kansas State Fair

At the Kansas State Fair, Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) took the stage for a debate and got an earful from his own constituents. The crowd chanted "shame on you" and "you don't even live here." When Marshall asked the audience, "Who do you want solving this problem?" they shouted back, "Not you." The moderator had to tell people to calm down. This was not a Democratic rally. It was the Kansas State Fair, and the Republican incumbent was facing a first-time Democratic candidate, Adam Hamilton, a United Methodist pastor who has never held political office.

The episode from the MeidasTouch Podcast walks through this scene and others like it across the country, then brings in Brian Poindexter, the Democratic candidate running against Representative Max Miller (R-OH) in Ohio's 7th Congressional District. The conversation is less about national polling and more about what candidates are hearing at the door, how voters are thinking about the choice in front of them, and what kind of campaign might actually break through.

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