Adversarial verification confirms the CHAMPIONED rating. The two PRIMARY sources (kelly.senate.gov) were fetched and their load-bearing quotes matched verbatim. Source 1 confirms "Kelly's bipartisan END FENTANYL Act will ensure Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has regularly updated operational policies to respond to illegal activity at ports of entry, including drug trafficking and human smuggling," describing Kelly as the bill's author/sponsor (leadership) with the measure enacted via the NDAA. Source 2 confirms Kelly "championed/secured" $650 million for the Shelter and Services Program, $19.6 billion total for CBP ($1.7 billion for Southwest border operations), and 2,145 additional Border Patrol agents — securing named appropriations, not merely voting. These two sources independently satisfy the CHAMPIONED leadership bar (authored an enacted named bill AND drove specific funding) for the "more resources to secure the border" component of the promise. The NBC source returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but an independent search confirmed the article exists with the exact cited headline ("Sen. Mark Kelly rips Trump over role in killing bipartisan border bill") and content matching Kelly's criticism of Trump over the killed 2024 bipartisan border bill; it is genuine and supportive, though it is supplementary and the rationale's characterization of Kelly having "led the Senate-floor push" slightly overstates his role (he was a vocal advocate, not a lead negotiator — Lankford/Murphy/Sinema led). That minor overstatement does not affect the core determination, which rests on the verified primary record. The "better communication" sub-component remains thinly documented, which appropriately keeps confidence at 0.85 rather than higher. Same evidentiary bar applied as for any official.