Trump cancels his appearance at weekend rally in Kansas days before midterm vote
Republican Senator Roger Marshall is in a tight race for re-election against Democratic candidate Adam Hamilton
President Donald Trump is canceled an appearance at a Kansas rally on Saturday, his only scheduled campaign-trail appearance the weekend before Election Day.
The president will instead participate in a series of virtual rallies. It’s unclear whether he will reschedule the Kansas event.
Trump was scheduled to appear at Salina Regional Airport to support embattled Republican incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall, who is polling closely in a race for re-election against Democratic candidate and pastor Adam Hamilton. The last time voters in the state elected a Democratic U.S. senator was in 1939.
Pieter Miller, executive director of the Salina Airport Authority, said “all Salina events are cancelled” due to the president’s schedule.
Protesters repeatedly interrupted the president’s last appearance in the state, which Trump falsely claimed were “paid” to be there. At least 11 people were escorted from the Heartland Credit Union Arena in Park City that night.
It was at that event where the president invoked the antisemetic slur “shylock” while defending Marshall’s history of suing former patients for failing to pay medical debt when he worked as an OB-GYN.
“And they made it like, oh, he was some kind of a shylock-type guy. And if he didn’t make these requests, he would be breaking the law,” Trump said at the Kansas rally earlier this month. “He would have been breaking a very strong criminal law, and he would be subject to criminal arrest and liability. And he didn’t do it. He has a law firm that did it.”
This is a developing story