Ex-GOP Kansas governor compares Trump rally to ‘freak show’ while backing Democrat in Senate race 2:39

A former Republican governor of Kansas is lending his support to a Democrat in the state's U.S. Senate race, and says he is skeptical that Donald Trump's rallies will get GOP voters to the polls. Bill Graves, in an appearance Monday on CNN's Erin Burnett Out Front, said he is endorsing Adam Hamilton, who is challenging incumbent Senator Roger Marshall.

Graves was blunt about the state of his own party. He described the experience of attending a Trump rally as "kind of like going to the freak show at the carnival." He told Burnett he doubts such events can effectively mobilize Republican turnout, and he criticized the current spectacle surrounding the GOP.

Elsewhere in CNN's political coverage that day, Troy Jackson, a Senate candidate in Maine, faced questions about his proposal for higher taxes on the wealthy, and Dana Bash examined AI-generated political ads, which have grown from almost nothing to $140 million within a single election cycle.

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