In the final weeks of the 2026 election, Democrats are working to put the Kansas Senate race on the map, even though Democrats haven’t won a Senate election in the Sunflower State for almost 100 years — and a recent ad from the Democratic nominee’s campaign went viral for a series of sensational claims in makes about how Sen. Roger Marshall (R., Kansas) ran his medical practice.
Marshall’s campaign calls the ad from Adam Hamilton’s campaign, which features one of Marshall’s former patients “objectively false and manufactured.”
“[The police] arrested me because I didn’t make a $50 payment to Roger Marshall…Roger Marshall preyed on the low income families of Kansas. The health care system is broken, but not for Roger Marshall. He’s absolutely profiting from it,” a Kansas woman says in the ad.
But Marshall’s campaign is disputing the core claims made in the Hamilton campaign ad; it points to documents from the case in Barton County which show that the debt the patient owed was $3,596.49, not $50.
Marshall’s campaign also argues that the woman could not have been arrested for failing to pay her bills, because Kansas law states that “no person shall be imprisoned for debt, except in cases of fraud.”
