Erik in the News
Press coverage, interviews, op-eds, and campaign updates, from launch day through the latest headlines on the trail.
Press coverage, interviews, op-eds, and campaign updates, from launch day through the latest headlines on the trail.
On KCUR's Up To Date, Erik Murray joined the conversation about the 2026 Kansas U.S. Senate race, making his case to voters and laying out the vision and priorities driving his campaign across the state.
On the Straight From The Heart podcast, host Kim Davis sat down with Murray for a wide-ranging conversation on leadership and the future of Kansas communities, from growing up in Wyandotte County and building businesses to access to capital, infrastructure, and closing the wealth gap so the next generation has a seat at the table.
Erik Murray joined Mike Matson on News Radio KMAN's “Within Reason” to talk through his path from KCK commercial real estate developer to U.S. Senate candidate, digging into the issues driving his campaign and what a solutions-first Democrat sounds like in Kansas.
In a guest commentary for the Kansas City Star, Murray argued that Democrats win by leading with moral courage, not by chasing a moving “center”, pointing to Kansas’ history of rejecting extremism and making the case for health care, affordable housing, and honest pay for honest work.
Following devastating tornadoes across Kansas, Erik Murray announced that for one full week every local and statewide campaign donation would be directed to families who lost their homes, pausing politics to actually serve neighbors and help begin the difficult work of rebuilding.
With Q1 FEC filings public, the campaign confirmed Murray as the top Democratic fundraiser in the Kansas Senate race, every dollar coming from individuals, none from PACs or corporations, and well clear of the rest of the primary field on grassroots energy alone.
In a wide-ranging Kansas Reflector interview, Murray laid out a solutions-first campaign rooted in love, kindness and decency, pledging a “heart of America tour” to all 105 counties and putting health care, education and affordability at the front of the Democratic primary.
As negotiations heated up over a new Chiefs stadium in Kansas, Murray called on every party at the table to come back with the Wyandotte community in mind, declaring he loves the Chiefs and supports the deal, but won't let neighborhoods like Quindaro get left behind.
Stopping in Iola and Humboldt on a swing through Allen and Neosho counties, Murray told the Register he's working to rebuild the belief that Kansas is in play, pointing to FEC filings showing a campaign funded entirely by individuals, with zero PAC or corporate money.
Speaking to a packed room in Salina, Erik Murray laid out a plan to finally close the rural broadband gap, calling out a decade of recycled federal pledges that left families and farms behind, and proposing direct grants to local co-ops who actually do the work.
The Star spoke with Murray about scaling community redevelopment from KCK to the Senate floor, including his Eastside Innovation team's $1B Indian Springs project and a downtown KC airport deal, and his pledge to place all assets in a blind trust if elected.
Surrounded by neighbors, small-business owners, and tradespeople, Erik Murray cut the ribbon on the campaign's first field office, declaring it a hub for door-knocking, phone banking, and town-hall organizing across the eastern half of the state.
The Capital-Journal covered Murray's launch as the fifth Democrat in the field, highlighting his platform of strong schools, support for small business, and lowering the cost of living in a race the campaign framed against an incumbent “weighed down by his party's extremism.”
Kansas City entrepreneur Erik Murray launched his campaign for U.S. Senate today, pledging community-driven solutions and a grassroots fight against career-politician incumbent Roger Marshall. Murray, who got his start running construction crews across the metro, says it's time Kansans had a senator who answers to them, not lobbyists.
On launch day, the Sunflower State Journal flagged Murray as the fifth Democrat in the primary, a 43-year-old commercial real estate developer “undaunted” by the 93-year stretch since the last Democrat won a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas.