Incumbent
Arkansas Secretary of State Republican nominee?
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APR 7, 2026Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
Overview
Current roleState Senator
PartyRepublican
Political ideologyConservative Republican
GenderMale
LocationArkansas
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BackgroundPastor
Notable personal detailsKim David Hammer is a Republican Arkansas state senator from Benton representing Senate District 16. He was elected to the Arkansas Senate in 2018 after serving eight years in the Arkansas House of Representatives. He has worked as a pastor and hospice chaplain and has sponsored and co-sponsored legislation related to elections, ballot initiatives, and public health emergency powers.
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Positions
Economy & Taxes
Kim Hammer has supported and sponsored legislation lowering Arkansas income and corporate tax rates and has been active on the Senate Revenue & Tax committee. He has backed state-level income tax cuts enacted in recent legislative sessions and has sponsored bills advancing tax relief measures.
Healthcare
Supports market-oriented and restrictive reforms to public-health policy and Medicaid expansion, including legislation creating exemptions to vaccine mandates and measures tied to Arkansas’s Medicaid expansion (work/eligibility changes and private-option style approaches). Has sponsored and voted for bills affecting Medicaid program design and health-provider policy.
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Immigration & Border
Supports cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities and favors enforcement measures that restrict undocumented immigrants’ access to certain state benefits or employment. Has backed policies that enable verification of immigration or citizenship status in contexts such as voter registration and has expressed opposition to sanctuary policies.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Kim Hammer has sponsored legislation to reinforce Arkansas’s near-total abortion restrictions, including legislation tied to Act 310 and a bill to place a monument commemorating unborn children; he has supported measures that strengthen legal protections against abortion and limit avenues for abortion-rights initiatives. These actions indicate support for strict limits on abortion with the goal of solidifying and memorializing Arkansas’s post-Roe restrictions.
Climate & Energy
Supports state funding for traditional domestic energy sources and for improvements to Arkansas energy infrastructure; no evidence found of support for aggressive emissions targets or Green New Deal–style policies. Public materials emphasize infrastructure and energy development rather than climate mitigation measures.
Public Safety & Guns
The candidate has sponsored and supported legislation expanding concealed-carry eligibility and has a legislative record of enacting measures that broaden gun-carry rights. Public materials and legislative records show active sponsorship of laws easing concealed-carry restrictions for certain 18–21-year-old military individuals, indicating a pro-Second Amendment stance while not showing explicit advocacy for elimination of all gun regulation.
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