Tag: Senate race

NEW YORK (AP) — Leading Republicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly optimistic that a Senate majority is within reach even as a dramatic family fight in Georgia clouds one of…

(Editor’s note: The following article has been edited to correct the spelling of Mike Soetaert’s last name. We regret the error.) Mike Soetaert’s path into the political realm has been anything but typical. Soetaert, part…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican nominee for Kansas’ open Senate seat called Saturday for quick action to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and dismissed his Democratic opponent’s disavowal of Green…

A Republican for much of her life, Barbara Bollier said those roots run deep. “I’m still very fiscally responsible,” she said. “And I can work across the aisle.” After 43 years as a registered Republican…

Thursday evening, U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Roger Marshall stopped in Iola for a meet-and-greet at Bolling’s Meatery and Eatery. Marshall currently represents the 1st District in Congress, an area which covers most of the western…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — 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…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — 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…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — With only one polling place designated Tuesday for Louisville, a city of 600,000 people, voters who didn’t cast mail-in ballots or show up early could face long lines in Kentucky’s primary,…

There’s a reason presidential politics, at some point, turn to the Supreme Court. Former Secretary of State Kris Kobach, now running for a U.S. Senate seat, spoke about the High Court, the Constitution and a…

U.S. Senate hopeful Kris Kobach will be in town this afternoon to discuss the U.S. Constitution at 2:30 p.m. at Bolling’s Meatery and Eatery, 415 W. Madison Ave. Kobach served as Kansas Secretary of State…