Um. What.

At the 1st stop on the KS GOP bus tour, Roger Marshall got out of a separate car, boarded the bus, then walked off the bus waving to supporters After he spoke, an event organizer tells me he left thru the back door of the venue in a separate car again Marshall called Hamilton “the most radical liberal Democrat to ever make it thru a primary in the state of Kansas.”

A campaign finance story from Tom Loftus and me kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/…

10/10, @LauraKellyKS and team

If you’ve never made an ad with a t-shirt cannon. Highly recommend. @ZachDemboKY is gonna flip the 6th.

Trump shows off his taxpayer-funded helipad but cannot be heard because the White House reporters are boycotting his "ban on the free press"

Our first ad of the general election season went on the air today. I’m a public servant, not a politician, and I’m grateful to have an ad out highlighting my experience serving the United States in the Navy and the Department of Justice. As your Congressman I’ll continue serving Kentuckians by fighting corruption in both parties, banning politicians from insider stock trading, and lowering healthcare costs for Kentuckians. Be sure to give this one a watch, and share with anyone interested. #ZachDembo #Kentucky #KY

‘We've told them he cannot come’: Republicans grapple with how to handle Trump on the trail dlvr.it/TVKHc6

Fascinating stuff happening in KY-06!

On June 14, Senator Mitch McConnell fell at his Washington home, briefly lost consciousness, and developed pneumonia, according to his office. He spent a month in the hospital and most of another in rehabilitation; in August, his office announced that he had returned to his Washington, D.C. home to continue recovering. In the meantime, the public has gotten a few written statements, secondhand assurances from Republican colleagues and friends, and two photographs. People who have known him for decades say they have little more idea what condition he is in than anyone else does. “He could be barely able to communicate, or he could be just as articulate as ever. We got no way of knowing,” Mike Ward, a former Democratic representative, told Nate Weisberg. Keith Runyon has known McConnell just as long as Ward and from considerably closer range: he spent 25 years running the ‘Louisville Courier-Journal’s editorial page, McConnell attended his wedding, and Runyon’s wife served as McConnell’s first press secretary. “I’ve lost the ability to believe entirely in what his office says,” Runyon said. For many, McConnell is the latest exhibit in a familiar pattern: an elderly legislator — in this case, after 41 years in office — becomes hopelessly debilitated, and his staff conceals how much power has quietly passed into their hands. In MAGA world, the suspicion is that McConnell — who is curiously a figure of scorn for many on the right, despite all he has done to advance their interests — remains powerful. “It’s not the physical Mitch McConnell,” Steve Bannon told Weisberg. “It’s the specter of Mitch McConnell. The specter of Mitch McConnell controls the Senate. It’s run by McConnell’s rules with McConnell’s people.” Read Weisberg on how one of the great architects of the modern GOP continues to wield influence despite his mysterious absence: nymag.visitlink.me/KSP9sK

What an amazing event this afternoon! Thank you to everyone who came out to kick-off this campaign. I’m fired up and ready to go, and I need you in this fight with me. Are you with me?! #RockyforKY #RockyForGovernor #KentuckyStrong