Adam Hamilton, who flipped Kansas blue in the midterms, says even nine Republican state legislators wrote to the president objecting to ICE in the state's meatpacking region. Three of those counties went for him, and he describes parents afraid to pick up their kids from school for fear of arrest.
The receipt
- Who
- Adam Hamilton
- Where
- interview - CNN with Dana Bash
- Original footage
- Forbes Breaking News · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 59 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
It's almost a doubling down, well, it feels like a doubling down on what the first two years of the Trump administration have done. And what I appreciate is the fact that people in my state, which is typically a pretty red state, have said this is not okay. This is not who we are. And when it comes to ICE, you mentioned immigration. When it comes to ICE in the southwest part of the state, where the meatpacking industry is, and so much the livestock industry is located there, You know, even before the election, nine Republican state legislators had sent a letter to the president saying, what's happening is not okay. This is not how we treat our neighbors. This is not, this is bad for our businesses down here. And three of those counties in that part in southwest Kansas went for me. There was a huge swing, 52 -point swing from 2024 to this election in terms of people in those counties saying, what's happening in Washington, D .C. and the policies that are happening here. Parents who are afraid to pick up their children after school because they're afraid they'll be arrested. I mean, it was just so many stories of things that happened there that weren't right.
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