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Two GOP Senators Will Vote Against Their Own Deal

August 9, 2021 at 5:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) — two members of the group that negotiated the bipartisan infrastructure framework — will vote against it, Politico reports.

Both men are up for re-election in 2022.

Both senators fear clearly fear Republican primary voters will penalize them for working with Democrats.

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign, Transportation Tagged With: IN-Sen, KS-Sen

Kansas Senate Race Is Tight

October 8, 2020 at 5:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new GOP internal poll in Kansas finds Barbara Bollier (D) leading Roger Marshall (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 45% to 42%, the Sunflower State Journal reports.

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

Internal Polls Show Kansas Senate Race Is Tight

September 30, 2020 at 10:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Kansas City Star reports on two internal polls showing the U.S. Senate race between Roger Marshall (R) and Barbara Bollier (D) is very close.

A poll done for Bollier gives her a 45% to 43% lead, while a poll done for Marshall has him ahead 43% to 39%.

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

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Ex-GOP Senator Endorses Democrat for Her Old Seat

September 17, 2020 at 9:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS) endorsed Barbara Bollier (D) for the Senate seat that she held for 18 years, the Kansas City Star reports.

This is the second time in two election cycles that Kassebaum has endorsed a Democrat in a statewide race, announcing her support for Laura Kelly (D) in the 2018 race for governor.

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

Misleading Senate Ad Uses Out-of-Context Quotes

September 10, 2020 at 1:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Party operatives playing fast and loose with the facts is commonplace in campaign ads, but a recent TV spot in the Kansas Senate race is stretching the norms,” Inside Elections reports.

“A recent ad from Rep. Roger Marshall (R) is intended to paint Marshall’s opponent, state Sen. Barbara Bollier (D), as a typical left-wing politician… But the advertisement itself is highly misleading, taking Bollier’s own words out of context and making it seem as if she’s commenting on hot-button issues when in reality she is discussing unrelated topics.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign, Political Advertising Tagged With: KS-Sen

Kansas Senate Race Very Tight

August 7, 2020 at 9:22 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Public Policy Polling survey in Kansas finds Roger Marshall (R) leading Barbara Bollier (D) by just one point in the U.S. Senate race, 44% to 43%.

In the presidential race, Donald Trump leads Joe Biden, 50% to 43%.

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

Marshall Wins GOP Senate Primary In Kansas

August 4, 2020 at 9:46 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Roger Marshall (R) has won the Kansas Senate Republican primary by defeating Kris Kobach (R), according to Decision Desk.

Marshall will face Barbara Bollier (D) in the general election.

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

Kansas Set to Decide Kobach’s Fate

August 4, 2020 at 6:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “Republicans are about to learn if they have a serious problem in Kansas — and another major threat to their teetering Senate majority.”

“In Tuesday’s primary, GOP voters will decide between hard-line conservative Kris Kobach and Rep. Roger Marshall as their nominee for an open Senate seat. Democrats haven’t won a Senate race in Kansas in nearly a century. But both parties think Kobach as the nominee would put the race squarely on the map, stretching Republican resources thinner as they’re already spending to protect a half-dozen vulnerable incumbents.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

Senate Republicans Worried About Kansas Seat

July 30, 2020 at 11:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “Mr. McConnell and other Senate Republican leaders have made urgent pleas to the president to block Mr. Kobach by endorsing one of his opponents, Representative Roger Marshall. But Mr. Trump has so far declined to do so, and his aides said they had no plans to change course. Compounding the frustration of Capitol Hill Republicans, White House aides have refused to tell Mr. Kobach, a longtime booster of Mr. Trump, to stop using the president’s imagery in his campaign materials.”

“With a number of incumbent Senate Republicans trailing in polls, and being out-raised by their Democratic rivals, they have little margin for error as they seek to protect their 53-47 majority. And because of Mr. Trump’s broad unpopularity, and a health crisis that has devastated the economy, even a deeply conservative state like Kansas, which has not sent a Democrat to the Senate since the 1930s, is no sure thing for Senate Republicans this year.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

Trump Will Not Take Sides In Kansas Primary

July 30, 2020 at 5:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump indicated to associates during a flight on Air Force One on Wednesday that he would not intervene in the US Senate Republican primary in Kansas despite the fears among top Republicans that the state could elect a nominee who will lose the seat and thus the Senate,” CNN reports.

“While the GOP establishment has long been alarmed by the prospect that conservative firebrand Kris Kobach could win the primary on Tuesday only to lose the general election in November, Trump has so far not endorsed its favored candidate, Republican Rep. Roger Marshall.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

Pat Roberts Endorses Roger Marshall to Replace Him

July 21, 2020 at 4:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), who is retiring, officially endorsed Rep. Roger Marshall (R) in next month’s Kansas primary, the Kansas City Star reports.

His support comes as Marshall is locked in bitter race with rivals Kris Kobach (R) and Bob Hamilton (R).

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

Mystery Super PAC Meddles In Kansas Senate Primary

July 16, 2020 at 8:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A mysterious new super PAC with links to Democrats released a TV ad on Wednesday meddling in next month’s Kansas Republican Senate primary,” Politico reports.

“The ad is engineered to drive conservative voters toward Kobach. A narrator in the ad calls Kobach ‘too conservative’ because he ‘won’t compromise’ on building President Trump’s border wall or on taking a harsher stance on relations with China. By contrast, the ad labels Marshall as a ‘phony politician’ who is ‘soft on Trump.'”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

Kansas Democrat Sets Fundraising Record

July 8, 2020 at 10:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Kansas Democrat Barbara Bollier raised more in a three-month period than any candidate in Kansas history for federal, state or local office,” the Kansas City Star reports.

“Bollier’s U.S. Senate campaign took $3.7 million in contributions from April through June, a quarterly record in the state.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

GOP-Aligned Group Targets Kris Kobach

July 6, 2020 at 9:53 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“An anonymous group with ties to Republicans has just emerged with the apparent aim of targeting Senate candidate Kris Kobach of Kansas,” CNN reports.

“Kobach is an anti-immigration firebrand and voter-fraud crusader whose primary campaign has sparked fears among GOP leaders that he could jeopardize a seat crucial to keeping control of the chamber.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

How Roger Marshall Erased a Reckless Driving Conviction

June 23, 2020 at 4:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“On Christmas Eve 2008, court documents show, Assistant Barton County Attorney Carey Fleske approached a district court judge with a request: erase Roger Marshall’s conviction that fall for reckless driving and replace it with a lesser charge,” the Wichita Eagle reports.

“The judge agreed, turning a suspended jail sentence for the future Kansas Congressman and Republican U.S. Senate candidate into a slap on the wrist.”

“But Fleske was more than a prosecutor. He was also the son of Marshall’s business partner and neighbor.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen, Roger Marshall

Kansas Senate Race Is a Dead Heat

June 2, 2020 at 11:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Civiqs poll in Kansas finds Barbara Bollier (D) in a dead heat in the U.S. Senate race against any Republican nominee.

Bollier leads Kris Kobach (R), 42% to 41%, trails Roger Marshall, 41% to 42%, and leads Bob Hamilton, 41% to 40%.

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

Kansas Senate Seat May Be Up for Grabs

May 30, 2020 at 11:04 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“It has been 88 years since Kansas last sent a Democrat to the United States Senate — one of only three Democrats ever to represent the state in the upper chamber. But this year, in a challenging and unstable political environment for Republicans, party leaders are growing fearful that this reliably Republican stronghold will instead become an expensive, high-stakes battleground that could determine the balance of power in Washington,” the New York Times reports.

“Ahead of the August primary, Democrats have largely rallied around Barbara Bollier, a retired anesthesiologist who was until recently a Republican. Republicans, meanwhile, are locked in an intraparty competition that has all of the trappings of a full-out brawl: attack ads, bitter recriminations between the candidates and a party chair who tried to intervene and sparked backlash. At the center of the fireworks is Kris W. Kobach, a hard-line Trump supporter who has been an incendiary presence in Kansas politics for years.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

Marshall Is Best Hope for GOP to Keep Kansas Senate Seat

May 28, 2020 at 4:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new National Republican Senatorial Committee poll in Kansas finds Roger Marshall (R) leading Barbara Bolier (D) in the U.S. Senate race, 46% to 35% with 18% undecided.

However, the race is effectively tied with Kris Kobach (R) as the GOP nominee: Kobach barely edges Bolier, 44% to 43% with 12% undecided.

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: KS-Sen

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