"No one should have to work in secondhand smoke," casino employee and founder Joseph Hafley told . Doesn't matter if you are like security, (environmental services), bartenders, anything like that. No one should have to deal with breathing that in, in order to make a paycheck."
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's editorial board praised Kunce for his working-class roots and pragmatic policies, such as red-flag laws; they call Hawley "quite possibly the worst sitting senator in America right now."