Debate on fuel price hikes filtering into Kansas campaigns for US Senate, governor

States Newsroom · October 27, 2026

TOPEKA — Vice President JD Vance blamed “tinpot dictators” in the Middle East, former President Joe Biden and other Democrats for surging gasoline and diesel prices in Kansas. Vance didn’t attribute higher U.S. fuel prices on President Donald Trump or Republicans controlling Congress during his Tuesday speech in…

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