Marshall struggles to unite GOP establishment in Kansas race
4 years, 7 months ago

Marshall struggles to unite GOP establishment in Kansas race

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Roger Marshall represents western Kansas in a congressional district rich in GOP votes and donors that has given the state four U.S. senators over the past 50 years. “It’s still Kobach’s to lose,” said Tim Shallenburger, a former state GOP chairman and state treasurer. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has told people that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo remains his first choice for the Kansas seat, said a top Senate GOP aide familiar with McConnell’s thinking. While McConnell hasn’t talked to Pompeo since January or had allies do so, he has had several conversations with President Donald Trump about the Kansas race and shown Trump polling indicating that Kobach could win the nomination, according to a Republican familiar with Senate leaders’ thinking. University of Kansas political scientist Patrick Miller said Marshall’s embrace of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” agenda seems “half-hearted” next to Kobach.

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Kansas’ top elections official is running for governor after pushing back on conspiracy theories
2 days, 9 hours ago

Kansas’ top elections official is running for governor after pushing back on conspiracy theories

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas’ top elections official launched a campaign for governor Wednesday after building his public profile by pushing back against unfounded election conspiracy theories and breaking with fellow Republicans on voting rights issues. Schwab also has defended the use of ballot drop boxes and countered other Republicans’ suggestions that voting by noncitizens — which is rare — is …

Kansas voters reject 'traitors' in both parties
5 months ago

Kansas voters reject 'traitors' in both parties

Raw Story  

Kansas voters on Tuesday ousted an incumbent Senate Republican and House Democrat who were seen as traitors by their parties, expanding an expected shakeup of the Legislature and setting the stage for a high-stakes general election. Democratic voters in Kansas City favored educator Wanda Brownlee Paige over incumbent Rep. Marvin Robinson, who voted almost exclusively with Republicans for most of …

Kansas GOP picks election conspiracy promoter as new leader
1 year, 10 months ago

Kansas GOP picks election conspiracy promoter as new leader

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Republicans on Saturday narrowly picked an activist who has promoted unfounded election conspiracies and promised a shakeup to lead the Kansas GOP for the next two years, following weeks of infighting that mirrors the acrimony in the party across the U.S. Within 30 minutes of the change in the Kansas Republican Party’s leadership, its state committee reviewed …

Rift in Kansas GOP boils over after loss in governor’s race
2 years, 1 month ago

Rift in Kansas GOP boils over after loss in governor’s race

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — A push by top Republicans in Kansas to punish party officials who backed an independent candidate for governor is shining a spotlight on an internal rift that could hinder GOP leaders’ efforts to steer the state to the right over Democratic Gov. Many Republicans blame independent state Sen. Dennis Pyle’s campaign for Kelly’s narrow reelection victory Nov. …

Kansas GOP follows Trump's lead and plots revenge
2 years, 1 month ago

Kansas GOP follows Trump's lead and plots revenge

Raw Story  

The nation turned its incredulous eyes to Mar-a-Lago Tuesday night as former President Donald Trump launched his third campaign for the highest office in the land. But spare a wary peeper or two for the antics of the Kansas Republican Party, which seems to have absorbed the onetime commander-in-chief’s taste for vengeance against his enemies, with none of the sparkling …

GOP’s Kobach wins Kansas AG’s race, revives political career
2 years, 2 months ago

GOP’s Kobach wins Kansas AG’s race, revives political career

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Republican Kris Kobach revived his political career by winning the Kansas attorney general’s race after two big losses tied to his national reputation as an immigration and election law provocateur. Kobach, a former two-term Kansas secretary of state and co-chairman of former President Donald Trump’s controversial voter fraud commission, defeated Democrat Chris Mann, a former police officer …

Republican Kris Kobach aims to rebrand in Kansas AG race
2 years, 2 months ago

Republican Kris Kobach aims to rebrand in Kansas AG race

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kris Kobach, the Kansan with a national reputation as a hardline provocateur on immigration and voter ID laws, is trying to rebrand himself as a calmer, steadier voice in his comeback bid for elective office. Kobach served as co-chairman of Trump’s short-lived presidential advisory commission on “election integrity” and promoted Trump’s lies about widespread voter fraud. Kobach …

GOP nominee for Kansas governor tries to flip abortion issue
2 years, 4 months ago

GOP nominee for Kansas governor tries to flip abortion issue

Associated Press  

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Republican candidate for Kansas governor tried Saturday to make the Democratic incumbent’s support for abortion rights a political liability, even with a strong statewide vote last month in favor of preserving access to abortion. GOP nominee Derek Schmidt, a three-term Kansas attorney general, said during a debate at the Kansas State Fair that he respects the …

Kansas governor breaks with Biden in appeal to GOP voters
3 years ago

Kansas governor breaks with Biden in appeal to GOP voters

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Democratic Gov. Then in November, two days after Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe to become governor of reliably blue Virginia, Kelly expressed her first opposition to Democratic President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates. “It’s a huge, huge gamble,” said Christopher Reeves, a Kansas City-area consultant and former Democratic National Committee member. Internal emails showed an internal …

Ex-prosecutor who led USS Cole team running for Kansas AG
3 years, 5 months ago

Ex-prosecutor who led USS Cole team running for Kansas AG

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — A retired assistant U.S. attorney who once led the prosecution of the accused mastermind of the deadly 2000 bombing of the USS Cole is running for Kansas attorney general next year. They are polarizing conservative Kris Kobach, a former Kansas secretary of state known nationally for advocating tough immigration laws, and Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Kelly …

Polarizing Trump ally Kobach launches bid for Kansas AG
3 years, 8 months ago

Polarizing Trump ally Kobach launches bid for Kansas AG

Associated Press  

WICHITA, Kan. — Polarizing conservative Kris Kobach launched a campaign Thursday for Kansas attorney general, attempting a political comeback in 2022 after losing nationally watched races for governor and U.S. Senate. Kobach also said past work as a University of Missouri-Kansas City law professor and with the U.S. Justice Department means the state attorney general’s office “suits me ideally.” The …

Election 2020: The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2020
4 years, 4 months ago

Election 2020: The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2020

CNN  

CNN — With the political conventions behind us and Labor Day approaching, it’s the time of year when down-ballot elections start to kick into high gear. Arizona Incumbent: Republican Sen. Martha McSally Mark Wilson/Getty Images Appointed to this open seat after losing the 2018 Senate race, McSally is the only incumbent on this list who hasn’t won statewide. North Carolina …

Kansas GOP picks Rep. Marshall for Senate seat over Kobach
4 years, 5 months ago

Kansas GOP picks Rep. Marshall for Senate seat over Kobach

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas Republicans on Tuesday nominated Rep. Roger Marshall for the Senate over polarizing conservative Kris Kobach, heeding the party establishment’s advice as it tries to keep a normally safe seat out of play in what could be a difficult year for the GOP. Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state, is nationally known for advocating restrictive immigration …

Conservative Kris Kobach Loses Kansas GOP Senate Primary
4 years, 5 months ago

Conservative Kris Kobach Loses Kansas GOP Senate Primary

NPR  

Conservative Kris Kobach Loses Kansas GOP Senate Primary Enlarge this image toggle caption Charlie Riedel/AP Charlie Riedel/AP Kansas Rep. Roger Marshall has defeated former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in the Republican Senate primary, according to The Associated Press, calming Republicans' worst fears about putting a seat in a deep red state in play this fall with the Senate …

GOP leaders can’t bank on Trump’s help in Kansas Senate race
4 years, 5 months ago

GOP leaders can’t bank on Trump’s help in Kansas Senate race

Associated Press  

HOLTON, Kan. — Establishment Republican leaders are scrambling to pull out a win in a tense party battle for the nomination in the Kansas Senate race, and they won’t be able to count on last-minute help from President Donald Trump. Although GOP leaders believe Kobach’s hardline anti-immigration message is too divisive to win a general election — and may jeopardize …

Retiring Kansas Sen. Roberts endorses Rep. Marshall for seat
4 years, 5 months ago

Retiring Kansas Sen. Roberts endorses Rep. Marshall for seat

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Retiring Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts declared his support Tuesday for Rep. Roger Marshall as his replacement, the latest signal that the Republican establishment is determined to push Marshall past polarizing conservative Kris Kobach in the GOP primary. “I sit on the Health Committee and know first-hand how important it will be to keep a Kansas view on …

Democrat outpaces top of GOP field in Senate race in Kansas
4 years, 5 months ago

Democrat outpaces top of GOP field in Senate race in Kansas

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — The presumed Democratic nominee for an open Senate seat in Kansas raised almost $1.3 million more than the top-tier Republican primary candidates combined during the second quarter of the year, despite a GOP candidate loaning $1.5 million to his own campaign. It is airing a 30-second spot describing rival and western Kansas Rep. Roger Marshall as “fake, …

Democrats Are Spending Serious Cash To Aid Kris Kobach In Kansas’ GOP Senate Race
4 years, 5 months ago

Democrats Are Spending Serious Cash To Aid Kris Kobach In Kansas’ GOP Senate Race

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A group with Democratic ties is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars boosting anti-immigrant crusader Kris Kobach in the race for the Republican Senate nomination in Kansas, the latest example of one political party trying to fool the other party’s voters into backing a perceived weaker candidate. It starts by ostensibly attacking Kobach as “too conservative,” and …

GOP establishment boosting Kansas congressman’s Senate bid
4 years, 6 months ago

GOP establishment boosting Kansas congressman’s Senate bid

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Establishment Republicans who’d been coy for months about the GOP primary for Kansas’ open Senate seat are increasingly putting their thumbs on the scale, hoping to push Rep. Roger Marshall to victory over polarizing conservative Kris Kobach. “You’re seeing a lot of people starting to circle the wagons around Roger Marshall,” said Kelly Arnold, a former state …

With Pompeo out, GOP looks to Rep. Marshall in Kansas race
4 years, 7 months ago

With Pompeo out, GOP looks to Rep. Marshall in Kansas race

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — The passing of Monday’s deadline to file to run for Kansas’ open Senate seat confirmed that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo won’t be a candidate, and a major anti-abortion group threw its support behind Rep. Roger Marshall to keep immigration hardliner Kris Kobach from the GOP nomination. It also left Marshall and Kobach, the former Kansas …

Dole endorses western Kansas congressman in US Senate race
4 years, 11 months ago

Dole endorses western Kansas congressman in US Senate race

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas Senate candidate Roger Marshall won the endorsement Monday of political icon and 1996 Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole, a boost for the congressman’s efforts to show GOP leaders he can defeat hardline conservative Kris Kobach in the primary. Marshall’s campaign announced Dole’s backing, and Dole tweeted that Marshall is “a true friend to me & a …

With Pompeo out, GOP can’t dodge Kansas Senate race headache
5 years ago

With Pompeo out, GOP can’t dodge Kansas Senate race headache

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration Tuesday that he won’t run for Senate in Kansas returned some Republicans to worrying that they can’t block a polarizing conservative from winning the GOP nomination and putting the seat in play. “Everybody but Kobach probably should get together and say, ‘Now why are we doing this and what are we …

Mike Pompeo says reports he’ll run for Senate are ‘completely false’
5 years, 1 month ago

Mike Pompeo says reports he’ll run for Senate are ‘completely false’

CNN  

Washington CNN — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo categorically denied reports that he is preparing to make a run for the Senate in Kansas, declaring them “completely false” ahead of an appearance Monday alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has said Pompeo is his “first choice” to run for the seat. But Trump himself has seemed open to the …

Impeachment intensifies buzz about Pompeo run for US Senate
5 years, 1 month ago

Impeachment intensifies buzz about Pompeo run for US Senate

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — A persistent buzz about Mike Pompeo stepping down as the top U.S. diplomat to run for an open Senate seat in Kansas has built to a roar as impeachment hearings into President Donald Trump have intensified scrutiny of the State Department. Many Republicans still see Pompeo as their best candidate for preventing the Kansas race from becoming …

Kobach’s brand still sells with GOP in Senate race in Kansas
5 years, 1 month ago

Kobach’s brand still sells with GOP in Senate race in Kansas

Associated Press  

WICHITA, Kan. — Kris Kobach isn’t fazed that fellow Republicans worry he’s unpopular or too brash in pushing his hard-right views to keep Kansas’ open Senate seat in GOP hands next year. “Yeah, Donald Trump can do it, but not everybody’s Donald Trump.” Yet for all the GOP concerns, Kobach’s brand still sells on the right — where the party’s …

Kansas’ Pompeo could swing Senate race, but will he run?
5 years, 4 months ago

Kansas’ Pompeo could swing Senate race, but will he run?

Associated Press  

MANHATTAN, Kan. — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo didn’t address speculation that he might run for the Senate in Kansas during a Friday college lecture in his home state, though some who attended left convinced it’s still possible. Answering questions from the audience of about 900 after the speech, the closest he came to addressing the speculation that he’ll …

Kobach launches US Senate bid in Kansas; some in GOP wary
5 years, 6 months ago

Kobach launches US Senate bid in Kansas; some in GOP wary

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kris Kobach, a nationally known advocate of tough immigration policies and vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, launched a campaign Monday for the U.S. Senate in Kansas amid hostility from some Republicans worried that his loss in the governor’s race could threaten the party’s Senate majority. It’s not a time for a senator who’s Republican-lite.” Kobach, the …

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