Kunce Attends Governor’s Ham Breakfast at 2024 Missouri State Fair

Lt. Col. Lucas Kunce (USMCR, 13 years of active duty) and Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate attended the Governor's Ham Breakfast Thursday morning at the Missouri State Fair.

KSIS spoke with Kunce during the event about his campaign:

“What I want to do is fundamentally change who has power in this country. You know, I grew up in a town in mid-Missouri where working class parents had four kids and went bankrupt from medical bills, and I just saw the strength in our communities when folks in our neighborhood didn't really have any more money than we did, pass the plate around, brought food by the house, and really took care of us when we were in the hardest spot. So I spent my life trying to pay that back. I became a Marine, deployed direct to Afghanistan, and this is my next step in that process. I want to serve and protect everybody who took care of me back in that neighborhood, and right now, and a lot of these politicians just want to take their rights away, you know, they take money from the wrong people and they don't protect things that are dear to us,” Kunce said.
Kunce went on to note that his opponent, Republican incumbent Josh Hawley, won't protect in vitro fertilization, won't protect contraception, and believes that no-fault divorces should be a thing of the past.

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“I believe that Missourians are smart enough to make their own decisions and we should empower the people,” Kunce said. “He doesn't want to do anything everyday Missourians want. He wants to take away power from us and control us for his own power. People are tired of that. I mean, you see what he's been doing on ballot initiatives over the past few years. We've been clawing back power that he's taken away from us. He's supported all these things that we eventually overcame. We raised the minimum wage five dollars over the federal level, expanded Medicaid, overturned right to work, 68-32, right? The guy is a right-to-work politician. And we made it legal to smoke weed on your back porch without getting harassed. We're going to protect reproductive rights this fall. That's what we're doing, we're taking back power for ourselves, and there's no one who's trying to control it more than Josh Hawley.

Hawley did attend the breakfast and confronted Kunce demanding a debate, as show on Hawley's X account.