Just days before the General Election Republican incumbents Governor Sam Brownback and Senator Pat Roberts have taken to the road for a four day bus tour across the state.

Wednesday was day one of the tour and featured stops in El Dorado, Wichita, Augusta and Pratt. Day two started in Dodge City and ended in Manhattan Thursday evening where they were greeted by a large crowd at the Union Pacific Depot.

Roberts told the crowd that this is a very important time in history.”The road to a republican majority in the United States Senate, to restore America, and to put Kansas values back into play, and to make the Senate operate like it has for 225 years, that road now runs right through Kansas,” said Roberts. “We have a historic opportunity.”

In his return to Manhattan Brownback told the crowd that if they need talking points when discussing the upcoming election all they have to do is bring up the construction of the future National Bio and Agro Defense Facility being built on the north side of the Kansas State University Campus.

“That’s only about a $1.2 billion project here in this community. The state had to put in another $200 million to get the federal money to come on down so we’ve invested more here and when it’s done there will be no facility in the world like this. When it’s done we’re going to be happy we’ve got it to research these zoonotic diseases that are the strangest things that are taking us on.”

Both Roberts and Brownback are facing tight races. Roberts is up against independent challenger Greg Orman as Brownback is facing democratic candidate Paul Davis.

Both candidates are encouraging everyone to get out and vote on Tuesday and asked the crowd to encourage everyone they know to vote as well.