Election 2026 Kansas Senate

Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall says Ukraine’s war with Russia — and not the U.S. war with Iran — has caused high diesel prices. Marshall made the comment Wednesday night during a televised debate as he sought to undercut one of Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton’s key arguments for ousting him from office. Marshall also tried to tie Hamilton to liberal Democrats’ Green New Deal proposals for shifting the U.S. economy fully to renewable energy to combat climate change and suggested those ideas have prevented the U.S. from building refineries. Hamilton talks frequently about diesel prices while campaigning. As for the Ukraine war causing their rise, he said, “Nobody believes that.”