President Donald Trump claimed that Adam Hamilton, a pastor and Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas, “openly mocks Jesus,” and attacked him for supporting transgender ideology.

Trump did not mention a specific statement in which Hamilton had mocked Jesus, though he made the accusation between two criticisms of Hamilton over transgender ideology.

“Adam Hamilton used church dollars to fund anti-religious transgender activity,” Trump said Monday at a rally in Park City. “He used a lot of church money to fund all of this transgender crap that you’re reading about—who openly mocks Jesus, and he openly mocks Jesus.”

Hamilton, a United Methodist pastor, has emerged as a prominent Democrat candidate seeking to combine leftist politics with Christian messaging. His church has repeatedly sponsored Kansas City PrideFest.

“He promotes a document listing 125 different genders,” Trump added. “You think Talafreako’s bad, he was only six,” the president added, referencing James Talarico, the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas.

The Daily Signal could not identify a document listing 125 genders. In a debate earlier this month, Hamilton said he doesn’t believe men should compete in women’s sports and he believes there are “two biological genders,” though “people might identify in different ways.”

“Adam Hamilton stated that he believes America is systemically racist,” Trump added. “He said that white people must repent.”

“Repent all of you white people,” Trump said, mockingly to laughter. “Terrible, terrible white people.”

It does not seem Hamilton expressly stated that all white people must repent, but the website includes a video of Hamilton preaching about the “privileges” he enjoys from being white. “Before I can do anything to help anyone else, I have to have a conversion, I have to repent,” Hamilton said in a June 2020 sermon.

In response to Trump’s comments, the Hamilton campaign emphasized the size and impact of the church the candidate founded, United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, where he serves as senior pastor. It is the largest United Methodist church in America.

“Adam is proud to have built a congregation of equal parts Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, who worship side by side and work together to serve their local communities,” Tyson Brody, the campaign’s spokesman, told the Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday. He noted that the church fed more than 45,000 people and distributed 60,000 books to kids in need last year.

Hamilton “welcomes critics to come visit Resurrection, instead of attacking the largest United Methodist Church in the country in an attempt to save Roger Marshall’s flailing campaign and distract from record diesel and gas prices, the war in Iran, and Roger Marshall’s usurious medical debt collection practices.”

“Our goal has always been to share Christ’s love with everyone,” the church told the Daily Signal.

Marshall’s campaign, when approached for comment, directed the Daily Signal to a website attacking Hamilton.

The website shows an image of the Kansas City PrideFest 2025 sponsors, which includes Church of the Resurrection.

Hamilton defended the sponsorship, saying that by it “the church affirms that each person is worthy of dignity, respect, and belonging.”

“I didn’t personally ‘take money from the church’ to do this—though I am proud of our church’s ministry and witness in the community—and I didn’t know there was a ‘drag queen story time’ at the PrideFest until this ad came out,” he said in September.

In a 2022 sermon, Hamilton defended a drag queen preacher from criticism and said the drag queen might reach people he couldn’t reach himself.

In 2024, the United Methodist Church voted to rescind its ban on LGBTQ ordination, after many conservative churches left the denomination.

The Republican National Committee condemned Hamilton’s social positions as “crazy.”

“President Trump needs his ally Senator Marshall back in Washington to continue standing up for ranchers, fighting for hardworking families, and protecting kids from creeps like Adam Hamilton who welcome men in women’s bathrooms,” RNC spokesman Zach Kraft told the Daily Signal. “This election is a choice between a commonsense leader and a crazy liberal maniac hell-bent on destroying Kansas’ way of life.”

Trump’s criticism comes as Hamilton and Talarico, a seminarian, have drawn increased attention to the “Religious Left,” Democrats who claim Christianity provides support for their policies, even on contested social issues.

During his three-decade career as a Marine, Sen. Dan Sullivan lived out the Marine Corps’ motto, Semper Fidelis, “always faithful,” retiring as a colonel in 2024 after several deployments across the Middle East and Asia. 

But now in a reelection bid, the Alaskan senator is receiving no such loyalty from a Democrat, Chuck Schumer-aligned super PAC that claims to help “veterans and national security experts win elected office.” Rather than supporting a decorated veteran, Schumer’s VoteVets is opting to rally behind Democrats, including Sullivan’s opponent, former Rep. Mary Peltola and Iowa state Rep. Josh Turek, neither of whom served in the military. 

Sullivan’s race for reelection against Peltola is as tight as they come. A recent RealClearPolling average has the Democrat up by 1.2 points, while other polls have Sullivan, a Republican, leading by as much as 3 points. VoteVets, meanwhile, has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into attacks against Sullivan and hosted an event with Peltola. Additionally, the Democrat organization spent millions launching Turek and helped him secure the Democrat nomination. 

Vice President JD Vance highlighted Sullivan’s service during a campaign rally in Fairbanks last week, introducing Sullivan as “a guy who cares about whether he fights for the men and women of this state. That is Marine Corps veteran, and your great senator, Dan Sullivan.”

During his three-decade military career, Sullivan was deployed to the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea, the Middle East, the Horn of Africa, and Central Asia. Sullivan served on a 2013 Joint Task Force in Afghanistan targeting terrorist networks in the Taliban.

“I’m Alaska’s junior U.S. Senator, but with the exception of husband and father, the title ‘Marine’ is my proudest achievement. Always has been. Always will be,” Sullivan said in a statement at the time of his retirement.

Beyond his military service, Sullivan has used his time in office to support the military and provide more resources for the Marines. In May, Sullivan announced a plan to expand the Marine Corps presence in Alaska, including a training program that would equip Marines for the extreme Arctic environment.

But despite Sullivan’s ardent support of the military in and out of uniform, the super PAC supposedly dedicated to electing veterans to office is actively campaigning against him. Even worse, the Democratic outside entity is supporting candidates with no military experience and individuals who have shown little support of the military while in office.

In August, the VoteVets PAC announced a plan to spend $225,000 in an ad campaign to smear Marine Veteran Sullivan for his “support of the war in Iran.”

VoteVets has spent $136,000 on the airwaves in Alaska, including at least $58,000 reserved on radio ads between Oct. 13 and Nov. 2. VoteVets’ sister organization, VoteVets Action Fund has spent more than $200,000 on radio and streaming advertisements in Alaska.

While VoteVets bashed Sullivan and his decades of military service, the group hosted a happy hour in Anchorage with Mary Peltola.

VoteVets’ support for non-veterans goes beyond Alaska. In April, the group announced its plans to drop $4.5 million to support Turek, a candidate with no service experience.

Turek has served as a state representative since 2023 and missed nearly 60% of his votes in the state House this year. One such instance included a key vote on funding for the Iowa veterans home and a veterans home ownership assistance program, which he missed to attend a happy hour with VoteVets.

A military mindset says no man will be left behind. But VoteVets is perfectly willing to leave a veteran in the dust when party control is at stake, spending against a decorated Marine veteran while backing candidates who never served.

Sullivan demonstrated his commitment to America, first as a Marine and later as a senator, but Schumer-backed VoteVets overlooked those accomplishments on the basis of party identification.

VoteVets has made its fidelity clear, and it’s not with the veterans it claims to back.

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This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.

We’re getting very close to the midterms. We’re less than three weeks away now. I would like to call them, though, the deep midterms because they’re about a deeper problem. Ostensibly, we are told that since 1900, only 12% of midterm elections have gone to the party in power in the White House. 

Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Bush, and Bill Clinton, for different reasons, were able to retain a few seats and didn’t lose the House. But usually, 88% of the time, they will. So the odds say that [President Donald] Trump will not keep them. But the reason is that his personal approval is around 38% to 40%. 

The price of gas right now, as I speak, is an average of $4.33 nationwide, and people are unsure what’s going to happen in the eight-month Iran war. But these are all fixable problems. The economic news is pretty good. 

The Atlanta Federal Reserve says 5% growth in the fourth quarter. We have record oil and gas production. We have the highest family income in history per capita. We have the lowest poverty rate in history. Inflation is getting up near 3%, but that’s entirely governed by the price of gas and diesel fuel, and it’s two percentage points lower than the average inflation during the Biden administration. 

[Gross domestic product] is 4.2%. We could go on. But the economy is pretty good, and with record foreign investment, deregulation and tax cuts, it’s going to get really good in the late fall and early winter.  

But one way to look at this is that this election goes beyond the price of gas and the Iran war. We are seeing something we’ve never seen in a midterm before. 

We have never seen a major political party deviate from the norms of American political traditions and protocols. And the democratic socialist-Islamist party is way off the spectrum, whether it’s defunding the police, an open border, mass amnesty, a war on fossil fuels, the Green New Deal again, or favoring the Middle Eastern Islamic countries over democratic, pro-American Israel.  

So this is a very existential midterm, and we’re voting for more than just two or three issues. 

We’re voting, really, on the future of the United States because these people in this socialist-Islamist party have a very different idea. We can get some idea of what it is, even though they’re not campaigning on issues. None of them are saying, “I disavow defund the police. I disavow open borders. I disavow wanting to tear down the wall. I disavow late-term abortion. I disavow my trans act.” 

No, they’re not. So we have to ask what they’re talking about. It’s Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, the bogeyman. But we can get some idea of what they’re doing for the following reasons. 

Four to five million people are leaving the blue states—the blue states where Abdul El-Sayed is running, where [Peggy Flanagan] is running in Minnesota, where Mr. Troy Jackson is running on this platform in Maine, and, of course, in our governor’s race in California.  

So what I’m getting at is that we’ve already seen what these people are for: a socialist-Islamist hard-left agenda. And the people are not talking about it. They’re just leaving. 

They don’t want any part of it. And then, when you ask why they’re leaving and look at, say, 10 indicators or so—what’s the tax rate in blue states? What’s the deregulation or regulation status? What’s the crime rate? What’s the fertility rate? What’s the GDP? What’s the unemployment rate? What’s the affordability of housing—it’s a whole different world, and we’re almost bifurcating in the United States in a way we haven’t seen since the 1850s, when geography was a force multiplier of ideology. 

Basically, we’re—if this trend continues, and this exodus is bigger than the Oklahoma diaspora of the 1930s into California. It is bigger than the black exodus from the South after World War I. It’s huge, and it’s unending, and we’re going to see two different countries separated not just by ideology—democratic socialism and Islamism versus traditional conservatism—but by locale and geography. 

And so, it’s one way we could label this midterm election: It is a deep election. It’s deeper than the peripheral issues. It’s deeper than even the candidates. It’s about people who want to win Senate and House races, and they have a particular agenda. And that particular agenda is something we’ve never seen before. It transcends the price of gas. It transcends the Iran war. 

Ask yourself, finally, one question: Which candidate is genuine and authentic in this sense—that they don’t say, “I didn’t mean what I said. I didn’t mean what I said. Why are you digging that up? That’s irrelevant. I’m erasing my social media account”? 

So, Ilhan Omar—has anyone said that this is the worst country in the world? Has anybody on the conservative side said this is the worst country in the world? When there was a Jewish synagogue attacked by terrorists, Mr. El-Sayed said, “Hurt people hurt people.” I haven’t heard anybody excuse terrorism like that. Has anybody? I haven’t. 

Mr. Hasan Piker, who seems to be the godhead of a lot of these people, has said that the United States—he said, “I hate the United States. We deserve 9/11.” I haven’t heard any Republicans say that, any conservatives say that. 

I’ve heard Mr. Zohran Mamdani say that he wants to go after white neighborhoods for higher taxes. I’ve heard his housing czar say that homeownership is a sign of white supremacy. I haven’t heard a conservative black person say homeownership is a sign of black supremacy. I could go on with all of these candidates. 

Ilhan Omar said this is the worst country in the world, as I said. So one side is telling you, “This is what I say. This is what I think about the United States as a socialist and an Islamist in this new coalition.” And to the degree that that might hurt my candidacy, I either say now, while I’m campaigning, “I didn’t really mean it,” or “Don’t dig that up,” or “That’s character assassination,” or “That’s Islamophobia,” or “That’s McCarthyism.” 

But you know that they meant it when they said it, and they meant it and will mean it if they are elected.  

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On Tuesday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth traveled to the Dayton, Ohio, area for a stop on the “Arsenal of Freedom” tour, addressing the workforce at Sierra Nevada Corp.

“We’ve gone around the country in this ‘Arsenal of Freedom’ tour, meeting with great companies and innovators and sending the signal to our great companies and innovators that when they are unleashed, they’re allowed to run fast—the Department of War is open for business,” Hegseth declared. “Not for show, not for peacetime, but with urgency and for victory, a lasting victory, one that will secure the freedom that we so cherish for generations to come.”

The secretary notably called out Washington, drawing a strong contrast with the work of President Donald Trump’s administration and the Sierra Nevada Corp. workforce.

“Washington, D.C., the folks that operate there, the lobbyists, political types, they don’t understand what you do. They couldn’t do a day in your shoes,” Hegseth said. “They don’t know what it means to build what you build.”

“You see, before President Trump instilled the kind of urgency in American manufacturing … Washington was full of folks who understood the art of sitting back and collecting a paycheck and leeching off the labor that built this great country of ours, producing nothing. Worse than that, Washington was content to outsource our jobs, outsource our supply chains, outsource our industrial base in the name of globalism or anti-American trade agreements,” he added.

Hegseth also praised the workforce for how they are builders “of that very arsenal that guarantees our freedoms.”

Hegseth promoted the tour in many ways throughout his remarks, saying “it’s critical” not to rely on other countries.

“That’s why the ‘Arsenal of Freedom’ is American-made; it’s American-manufactured. It’s American jobs. It’s American muscle. It’s American power. It’s these great American citizens in front of me. Because if we don’t prepare now, we will not win in the future,” he said.

The secretary said that Trump reversed the “backward status quo” of outsourcing military preparedness and set a new course of “unleashing a great American revival, a reawakening of our industrial spirit and our national confidence, a new Golden Age for America.”

While touring the facility of the American aerospace, defense, electronics, and engineering company, Hegseth hailed Sierra Nevada Corp. as a business that “can and will lead the way in helping the War Department.” He praised Sierra Nevada Corp. in particular for developing capabilities to “counter-disable” roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices.

“Many of our warriors came home because of the innovation championed by the people here today and this corporation, and you all should be proud of that theme,” Hegseth said to applause.

He added that he continues to fight a “nonstop war of attrition with the Pentagon bureaucracy, with our own building, to cut the red tape, to speed up the processes, to ensure that you can run fast, to ensure that what a warfighter needs arrives when they need it, before they need it, not after.”

The secretary called for a $1.5 trillion investment in the American military and said those investments would “translate directly into high-paying jobs for American manufacturers like the Sierra Nevada Corporation.”

He also said the department must be required before 2028 to “pass a full audit of the Department of War to know where every dime is coming from,” as is mandated by Congress.