MAGA Inc. expanded its campaign spending on races in Republican stronghold states on Monday, deploying Vice President JD Vance to Kansas to help Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS).
Marshall’s race for reelection against Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton is considered likely Republican by the Cook Political Report. But it was upended last week by a New York Times report that the obstetrician’s former OB-GYN practice sued more than 700 patients for unpaid bills, 81 of whom were arrested, in an election cycle in which Democrats have criticized Republicans for their healthcare policies, including their cuts to Medicaid.
Vance indirectly addressed the controversy during a rally in Olathe, Kansas, his second public MAGA Inc. rally in as many weeks, excluding last week’s Republican midterm convention.
“In Doc Marshall, you have a man who devoted his life to delivering babies and making sure that moms and children from every walk of life were safe and had the healthcare that they need,” he said at Webco Manufacturing. “So I ask you this November to stand for a man who stood for moms and babies, to stand for a man who stood for all Kansas. Let’s stand for Doc Marshall and send the crazy people packing, ladies and gentlemen. Elect Roger Marshall to the U.S. Senate.”
Vance also spun a protester’s interruption in support of Marshall, who was first elected to the House in 2016 before he ran for the Senate in 2020.
“He decided to come in and lie about my very dear friend Doc Marshall,” the vice president said. “The reality is that Doc Marshall has stood up for everyday Americans every single day.”
A MAGA Inc. spokesman was quick to dismiss the idea that Monday’s rally was organized in response to the New York Times story.
“You think we stood up a rally in less than a week?” the source asked the Washington Examiner.
The MAGA Inc. rally comes after the super PAC disclosed last week that it will spend $10 million on Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton‘s race against Democratic nominee James Talarico.
Paxton and Talarico are in a statistical tie, according to polling aggregator RealClearPolitics, but President Donald Trump won Texas over then-Vice President Kamala Harris by 14 percentage points in 2024.
Marshall has a wider, 5-percentage-point lead over Hamilton, according to one public poll published last week, but although Kansas does have a Democratic governor, Trump won the state by 16.5 points in 2024.
Regardless, Vance provided personal testimony for Marshall on Monday, having served with him in the Senate from 2023 until he left to become vice president in 2025.
“As amazing as he is in public, in private, Roger Marshall is just as good a senator and just as good of a man,” he said. “He is the guy who tells the lobbyists, ‘I don’t fight for you. I don’t work for you. I work for the people in this room.’ And he means it every single day.”
Roger was booed last weekend during a debate at the Kansas State Fair as he defended his support of Trump, particularly the president’s tariffs, the war in Iran, and funding decreases to healthcare and food assistance through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“My opponent is too woke, he’s too weak, and he doesn’t stand for anything,” Marshall said during the event.
MAGA Inc. had concerned Republicans with its delay in spending some of the $400 million cash on hand it had at the end of July on November’s midterm elections until it spent $828,000 on Sen. Darline Graham Nordone‘s (R-SC) special election primary runoff to permanently replace her brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, in the Senate last month.
Then, shortly after MAGA Inc. made its first ad buy of the election cycle this month with a Trump-centric spot through its nonprofit organization Securing American Greatness, the super PAC disclosed its Texas spending for Paxton.
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On the same day as the Texas disclosure, it was announced that a new, aligned group, No Going Back PAC Inc., would spend $49 million on ads for seven races, including $15 million in Michigan, $11 million in Ohio, $10 million in New Hampshire, $4 million in Maine, among other Senate and House contests.
Vance’s first public MAGA Inc. rally was for Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers, who is similarly in a statistical tie with Democratic nominee Abdul el Sayed, earlier this month.