Republican · Incumbent
Tom Cotton
3 statements on record
Full recordSenate · Election Day November 3, 2026
Arkansas Senate race 2026
2 candidates, in surname order. 3 statements on the record, word for word, each linked to where it ran.
Democratic
Hallie Shoffner
No statements on the record yet
On the record, by issue
The presidency & national symbols1
Tom Cotton
Disputes
“No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter”
CBS News Trump posts Tom Cotton's cellphone number to push permanent daylight saving time ›
Hallie Shoffner
Nothing on this issue yet
Other topics1
Tom Cotton
As printed
“Arkansans don’t want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I’ll always put Arkansas first.”
Fox News Trump drops Republican Senator's phone number in social post over fury on stalled bill ›
Hallie Shoffner
Nothing on this issue yet
The latest 2 per candidate on each issue. Each full record, linked at the top, holds the rest.
Claims on the ledger
Tom Cotton
Open
“Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter”
Hallie Shoffner
No checkable claims on the ledger yet
Where the candidate list comes from
- NBC News: Arkansas Senate primary results read September 30, 2026
Names and party labels were checked against these pages on September 30, 2026. The list holds the major-party nominees and any independent who is a principal candidate. Smaller-party and write-in candidates are left out; the state’s election office has the full ballot.
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