In an NBC News interview, Senator-elect Adam Hamilton says Kansans responded to the cost of fuel and fertilizer, "the hidden tariff tax," 60,000 Kansans losing health insurance and SNAP benefits taken from 20,000 Kansas children. "There was cruelty. There was corruption," he says. "It's not who we are as Kansans."
The receipt
- Who
- Adam Hamilton
- Where
- TV interview - Meet the Press (NBC News), days after election night
- Original footage
- NBC News · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 52 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 186 on Instagram
Read the transcript
This is not who we are. Republicans saying this is not what it means to be a Republican. What's happening in Washington, DC. Democrats who were clearly frustrated, disappointed, afraid, I think sometimes, of what's happening in our country and just saying, we've got to do better. And so I had a chance to, you know, that I res, people resonate with that message. It had to do with kitchen table conversations around the cost of fuel, the cost of fertilizer, if you're a farmer. But it was also the hidden tariff tax. It was the 60 ,000 people in Kansas who lost health insurance the last year and a half. So it was these things, SNAP benefits taken away from 20 ,000 children in Kansas. But I think it was also a sense of common decency. This is part of our campaign was, you know, we've got to do better. This is not decent. There was cruelty. There was corruption. There were things happening in D .C. that people were saying, that's just not American. It's not who we are as Kansans, and we have to do better. And I think that message resonated with a lot of people here.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.