2026-10-22T00:05:18-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：莱利·卡纳南、卡特里娜·考夫曼
堪萨斯州这场出人意料的激烈参议院选战候选人于周三晚间展开辩论，共和党人正竭力避免近一个世纪以来首次输掉堪萨斯州参议院席位的可能性。
现任共和党参议员罗杰·马歇尔猛烈抨击如果自己失利将带来的后果——这可能帮助民主党拿下参议院控制权：“我的对手会不择手段撒谎以攫取公职，将参议院控制权拱手交给查克·舒默。”
马歇尔的民主党挑战者、大型教会牧师亚当·汉密尔顿试图说服选民，自己对堪萨斯州选民来说并不过于激进，并就关税、伊朗战争以及特朗普政府其他政策对该州的影响发起攻势。
马歇尔坚定支持特朗普总统的诸多观点，与特朗普一样将柴油价格上涨归咎于乌克兰战争，而非伊朗战争。
“具体而言，柴油成本上涨的真正问题首先是乌克兰战争，正因如此，柴油产量出现下滑，”马歇尔说道。但与此同时，他在谈到特朗普最近宣布美国将采购俄罗斯柴油时表示：“这在我听来不是个好主意。”他补充道：“如果这能让俄罗斯回到谈判桌并结束战争，那我现在完全支持。”
尽管马歇尔恳求特朗普的支持者投票支持他，但他表示自己并不总是与总统立场一致，此前曾多次“反对”特朗普，具体提及了堪萨斯州的移民海关执法局突袭行动以及特朗普政府对牛肉进口的短期豁免，这两项政策都损害了堪萨斯州农民的利益。
汉密尔顿将自己描述为“温和派或秉持独立立场的民主党人”，并承诺“跨越党派界限，努力团结各方解决问题”。
汉密尔顿在很大程度上试图与主流民主党保持距离。他承诺如果民主党赢得参议院席位，不会投票支持舒默担任多数党领袖，称拜登政府的边境政策是一场“灾难”，并在谈及跨性别者参与体育赛事时表示：“我有一个12岁的孙女。我不希望生理男性或男孩与她竞争，这可能会对她造成伤害。”
马歇尔辩称汉密尔顿的左翼立场比其对外宣称的更激进。这位共和党参议员还质疑汉密尔顿的独立性究竟有多高。
“他会说自己会投票反对这些主张，但每一名民主党议员都会站出来，当舒默让他们怎么做时，他们只会问‘跳多高？’”马歇尔在体育议题讨论期间说道，“那他到了华盛顿后为什么会有任何不同？他可以对我们说一套，但我们看看他实际会怎么做。”
汉密尔顿表示，他将努力“迫使”特朗普结束伊朗战争。高油价和关税正让该州众多农场陷入严重的经济困境，许多选民告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，如果情况持续下去，他们不确定自己能否撑过明年。
“发动伊朗战争不是一个明智的决定，我们需要抽身而出，”汉密尔顿说道。
马歇尔表示，他“希望这场战争尽快结束……但我们不能让伊朗拥有核武器”。他将汉密尔顿的观点描述为“通过软弱换取和平，而非通过实力赢得和平”。
汉密尔顿猛烈抨击特朗普的关税政策，称其导致了混乱和不确定性。马歇尔则表示，总统的关税政策推动了“制造业复兴”。
特朗普的移民政策也在堪萨斯州引发审视，包括一系列移民海关执法局突袭行动，农业领袖警告此举可能造成劳动力中断。马歇尔上个月在社交媒体发帖反驳称，移民海关执法局“需要与我们当地执法部门协调”。
周三的辩论中，汉密尔顿将移民海关执法局的做法称为“军事化”和“政治化”。马歇尔则表示“所有讨论都应始于边境安全”，辩称民主党可能放松边境执法力度。
民调显示选战胶着，数百万美元涌入堪萨斯州，该州的广播电视时段充斥着攻击马歇尔和汉密尔顿的广告。
辩论主持人立刻向两位候选人问及他们最具争议的事件。对马歇尔而言，是《纽约时报》的报道，内容显示这位妇产科医生曾积极向其前患者追讨医疗债务——其中许多患者经济拮据——部分患者甚至因此被捕。
汉密尔顿则面临有关其教会对2005年青年夏令营儿童性虐待事件应对措施的质询。
马歇尔称“我们尽一切所能妥善照顾患者”，许多患者获得了免费医疗服务。他承认部分患者被移交给了催收机构，并称之为医疗行业的标准做法，属于相当罕见的情况。
周一在威奇托的集会上，特朗普为马歇尔的这些指控辩护，称根据法律，他必须上报债务问题，并表示马歇尔被不公平地“描绘成了夏洛克式的人物”。（反诽谤联盟随后表示，“夏洛克”这一源自威廉·莎士比亚《威尼斯商人》中犹太放债人的词汇，“植根于长期存在的反犹太主义刻板印象”。）
在虐待丑闻问题上，汉密尔顿表示其教会随后修改了处理虐待指控的政策，且“最终我们帮助将这名男子送进了监狱”。不过，汉密尔顿承认，“我本应核查确保他不会再回到青年夏令营。那是我的失误。”
汉密尔顿所属联合卫理公会的发言人凯西·比恩周三告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，这起事件“是20年前我们所知范围内的最佳处理方式”。
堪萨斯州可能决定参议院的控制权归属，甚至在辩论开始前，该州的提前投票人数就已飙升。选举官员表示，当前的投票人数可与2024年总统大选相媲美。
这场选战可能取决于有多少共和党人跨党派投票支持汉密尔顿。至少100名堪萨斯州共和党领袖已背书汉密尔顿，其中包括前州长、州政府官员以及特朗普前白宫新闻秘书斯蒂芬妮·格里沙姆。
但许多人提前投票是为了确保共和党继续掌控参议院。威奇托的提前投票选民蒂姆·希金斯告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他支持马歇尔，因为“自总统大选以来，保持国家目前的发展势头很重要”。
然而，对许多人而言，这场选战关乎州内议题。
“堪萨斯州的农村地区在挣扎，城市地区也在挣扎，”支持汉密尔顿的前共和党州众议员特里·亨廷顿说道，“我认为人们都在寻求改变。”
As Kansas Senate race tightens, Marshall argues opponent is just another Democrat, while Hamilton says he’s “independent-minded”
2026-10-22T00:05:18-0400 / CBS News
By Riley Callanan, Katrina Kaufman
The candidates in Kansas’ surprisingly competitive Senate race faced off in a debate Wednesday evening, as Republicans fight to head off the possibility of their first loss in a Kansas Senate contest in nearly a century.
Incumbent GOP Sen. Roger Marshall hammered away at what it would mean if he were to lose — that it could help hand control of the Senate to Democrats: “My opponent’s going to say anything he can to lie to get into that office and give control to Chuck Schumer.”
Marshall’s Democratic challenger, megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton, tried to convince voters that he’s not too progressive for Kansans and went on the offensive against Marshall over the impact of tariffs, the Iran war and other Trump administration policies on the state.
Marshall hewed closely to many of President Trump’s views, and like him, blamed rising diesel costs on the war in Ukraine, rather than the Iran war.
“The real problem with the cost of diesel, in particular, is No. 1, is the Ukraine war, and because of that, diesel production has gone down,” Marshall said. But at the same time, he said of Mr. Trump’s recent announcement that the U.S. would purchase Russian diesel, “it doesn’t sound like a great idea to me.” He added, “If this brings Russia to the bargaining table and it ends the war, then I’m all for it right now.”
While Marshall implored Trump voters to come out and vote for him, he said he does not always align with the president and has “objected” to him multiple times before, specifically citing the ICE raids in Kansas and Mr. Trump’s short-term waiver on beef imports, both of which have hurt Kansas farmers.
Hamilton described himself as a “moderate or independent-minded Democrat” and vowed to “work across the aisle to try to bring people together to solve problems.”
Hamilton largely sought to distance himself from mainstream Democrats. He promised not to vote for Schumer to be majority leader if Democrats win the Senate, called the Biden administration’s border policies a “disaster” and said during a discussion on transgender participation in sports: “I have a 12-year-old granddaughter. I don’t want biological men or boys competing against her that could harm her.”
Marshall argued Hamilton leans further to the left than he has let on. The Republican senator also questioned how independent Hamilton would be.
“He’s going to say he’s going to vote against these things, but every Democrat stands up, and when Schumer tells them to jump, they say, ‘how high?’” Marshall said during the sports discussion. “So why is he going to be any different once he gets to Washington? He can tell us one thing, but let’s see what his actions would be like.”
Hamilton said he would try to “force” Mr. Trump to end the Iran war. High gas prices and tariffs are putting many farms in the state in dire economic straits, with many voters telling CBS News that they aren’t sure if they will survive past next year if conditions continue.
“It was not a good decision to go to war in Iran, and we need to get out,” said Hamilton.
Marshall said he “want[s] this war to be over … as soon as possible, but we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.” He described Hamilton’s views as “war through weakness, as opposed to peace through strength.”
Hamilton slammed Mr. Trump’s tariffs, arguing they have led to chaos and uncertainty. Marshall said the president’s tariffs have led to a “manufacturing renaissance.”
Mr. Trump’s immigration policies have also drawn scrutiny in Kansas, including a string of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that agricultural leaders warned could cause workforce disruptions. Marshall pushed back last month, saying in a post on social media that ICE “needs to coordinate with our local law enforcement.”
During Wednesday’s debate, Hamilton called ICE’s practices “militarized” and “politicized.” Marshall said “all this discussion starts with a secure border,” arguing Democrats could loosen border enforcement.
Polling suggests a tight race, and millions of dollars have gushed into Kansas, flooding the state’s airwaves with anti-Marshall and anti-Hamilton ads.
The debate’s moderator wasted no time in asking both candidates about their biggest controversies. For Marshall, that’s the New York Times report about how the OB/GYN aggressively pursued his former patients — many of whom struggled economically — for medical debts and in some cases had them arrested.
Hamilton faced questions regarding his church’s response to an incident of child sex abuse at a youth summer camp in 2005.
Marshall said “we did everything possible to take good care of people” and that many of his patients got free care. He conceded that some patients were turned over to collections agencies, which he called a fairly rare occurrence that is standard in the medical industry.
At his rally in Wichita on Monday, Mr. Trump defended Marshall against these allegations, saying he was required by law to report the debt, and that he’s been unfairly “made out to be some kind of Shylock character.” (The Anti-Defamation League later said the term “Shylock,” a reference to a Jewish moneylender in William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” is “rooted in a longstanding antisemitic stereotype.”)
On the abuse scandal, Hamilton said his church subsequently changed its policy on handling allegations of abuse, and “ultimately, we helped get this man put behind bars.” Still, Hamilton admitted, “I should have checked to make sure that he wasn’t going back (to the youth camp). That was a mistake on my part.”
Cathy Bien, a spokesperson for Hamilton’s United Methodist Church, told CBS News on Wednesday that the incident was “handled the best way [they] knew how 20 years ago.”
Kansas could decide which party controls the Senate, and even before the debate, early voting numbers were skyrocketing in the state. Election officials say that they are fielding numbers that rival the 2024 presidential election.
The race could hinge on how many Republicans cross party lines to vote for Hamilton. At least 100 Kansas Republican leaders have endorsed Hamilton, including former governors, state officials and Mr. Trump’s own former White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham.
But many are voting early to ensure Republicans maintain control of the Senate. One early voter in Wichita, Tim Higgins, told CBS News that he’s backing Marshall because “it’s important to keep the progress that the nation is currently on since the presidential election.”
However, for many, the race is about state issues.
“Rural Kansas is struggling, urban Kansas is struggling,” said former Republican state Rep. Terrie Huntington, who is voting for Hamilton. “I think people are looking for change.”
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