Primary results: Kris Kobach loses Kansas Senate primary
While President Trump had not waded into this race, he backed Kobach in the 2018 gubernatorial race.
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While President Trump had not waded into this race, he backed Kobach in the 2018 gubernatorial race.
A crowded Republican Senate primary in Kansas. A "Squad" member facing a rematch. Another chance for a candidate to unseat a longtime Democratic incumbent by running to the left. These are some of the congressional primary races being held in five states on Tuesday. CBSN's Tanya Rivero has more.
The Senate primary race in Kansas is crucial as the Republican Party tries to maintain its slim majority. Kansas City Star Washington correspondent Bryan Lowry joins CBSN's "Red and Blue" to discuss the controversy surrounding GOP primary candidate Kris Kobach, who's running against U.S. Representative Roger Marshall and businessman Bob Hamilton.
Voters in Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington headed to the polls for state primaries, and many opted for mail-in voting due to concerns over the coronavirus. David Weigel, a national reporter for The Washington Post, joined CBSN to discuss the races on Tuesday.
The state hasn't elected a Democrat for Senate since 1932
The far-right Kobach has been criticized for his positions on immigration and led Trump's now-dismantled voter fraud commission
Kobach, the former secretary of state of Kansas, met with the committee on Monday to discuss the Census
Kansas faces an uphill battle to resurrect the law once championed by former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach
Kobach said migrants come "because we give out the goodies as soon as you come across the border"
The president is rallying in Topeka, Kansas, shortly after his nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, was confirmed
Greg Orman's run could thwart area Democrats' ambitions and help elect a Republican to be the state's next governor
The conservative stalwart advances to the general election as incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer concedes
Secretary of State Kris Kobach led Gov. Jeff Colyer by a mere 110 votes out of more than 313,000 cast as of Friday evening
Kobach's opponent, Gov. Jeff Colyer, publicly accused Kobach of giving county election officials information about the handling of yet-uncounted ballots "inconsistent with Kansas law"
The race is still undecided after Tuesday's GOP gubernatorial primary found Kobach and Gov. Jeff Colyer in a dead heat
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the face of President Trump's now-defunct voter fraud panel, is claiming a "tentative" win over incumbent governor Jeff Colyer in the state's Republican primary. Bryan Lowry, lead political reporter for The Kansas City Star, spoke to CBSN about what's next in the race, where the candidates are separated by less than 200 votes.
A big win for labor in Missouri as Republicans struggle in what should be safe districts in Ohio and Washington
The president is supporting Kobach over the incumbent Republican Kansas governor
The crime, police said, involved threatening a cab driver by putting a gun to his head
The decision strikes down the Kansas proof-of-citizenship registration law and makes permanent an earlier injunction that had temporarily blocked it
Maybe Americans are a little paranoid about the ballot box. Then again, given the elections we've seen, maybe we should be
"The commission does not have the ability to do a Jedi mind trick on a state legislature and force them to adopt anything," said Kobach of the advisory body
Mississippi's Republican secretary of state says "they can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico"
But some states already balking, with some saying commission may only be effort to advance voter suppression efforts