Luján vs. Marker, issue by issue

Luján’s campaign says “Trump’s rogue ICE has killed American citizens in our streets” and that he’s “introduced legislation to mandate training for ICE and CBP officers and hold them accountable.” Marker, asked about his top priority in the KVIA voter guide, named “securing the border, stopping the fentanyl flowing into our communities, and backing the law enforcement officers who protect us.”

Luján’s site says “Trump’s deadly war of choice has caused energy and gas prices to skyrocket. I’m fighting to bring those costs down.” without naming a mechanism. Marker, asked about data centers’ energy demand, said “we should meet their energy demand by producing more of our own, not by importing it,” adding that data centers “must pay their own way for the power and water they use, so families and small businesses never see their utility bills rise to subsidize them.”

Asked about transparency in the KVIA voter guide, Marker said he would “hold regular town halls in every region of the state,” “disclose every meeting with lobbyists, and support banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks.” He also named getting federal money, “from fire recovery funds to opioid settlements,” to the people it’s meant for. Luján’s site says he holds elected officials to a standard of integrity, “including leading the effort to force the release of the full Epstein files.” It says nothing on stock trading or lobbyist meetings.

Luján’s site says: “I helped pass the law letting Medicare negotiate drug prices, capped insulin at $35 a month, and capped seniors’ out-of-pocket drug costs.” The Ledger found no public statement from Marker on health care costs or Medicare.