TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Latest news about Kansas’ number one election (all local hours):
9:55 p.m.
Amanda Adkins won number one Republican in the 3rd District of Kansas.
Overland Park, 45, is vice president of strategic expansion at the Cerner Corporation and former chairman of the Kanss Republican Party.
Adkins defeated Adrienne Vallejo Foster, Sara Hart Weir, Mike Beehler and Tom Love and will face current Democratic incumbent Sharice Davids in the November election.
Adkins has put pressure on President Donald Trump. His crusade was driven by a political action committee funded largely by his father. Davids earned national attention as a native American candidate and LGBTQ brabably in 2018 and has already raised more than $3.8 million for his re-election crusade.
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9:30 p.m.
The Kansas state treasurer overthrew the freshman rep. Steve Watkins in the Republican primary, on Watkins criminal charges.
Treasurer Jake LaTurner’s victory in Tuesday’s election came here three weeks after the district attorney in Watkins, Shawnee County, filed a lawsuit.
Watkins is accused of illegally voting in a race for Topeka City Council in November 2019 and attempting to trick the sheriff’s detective investigating Watkins’ directory of a mailbox at a UPS Inc. store as his apartment on a state voter registration form. Watkins called the criminals”s rates “false,” but LaTurner argued that the criminal case made Watkins a vulnerable candidate in the general election.
Watkins is a former army officer and army contractor who slightly won his seat in 2018 as a political rookie. LaTurner is a former state senator who has served as treasurer since 2017.
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9:10 p.m.
Kansas Republicans have nominated Rep. Roger Marshall for the Senate over polarizing conservative Kris Kobach.
The effects of Tuesday’s number one were in line with the establishment of the Republican Party for the Western Kansas Congressman for two terms in hopes of keeping the loose seat offside in the November election.
Many Republicans feared that Kobach would win the nomination that the former Kansas secretary of state is nationally known for defending restrictive immigration policies and lost the Kansas governor’s career in 2018 after alienating moderate and independent Republican voters.
Marshall faces Democratic state seed Barbara Bollier in the November election for The Seat of Republican Senator Pat Roberts. She raised more than $8 million for her campaign.
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8:25 p.m.
The mayor of Topeka won the Democratic nomination for a seat in the Eastern Kansas Congress.
Mayor Michelle De La Isla won Tuesday’s number one choice in opposition to instructor and graduate student James Windholz of the University of Kansas. De La Isla had the presence of prominent Democrats.
Democrats from The Island can replace seats in the Republican time district, even though President Donald Trump used it brilliantly in 2016.
Senior Republican Steve Watkins won slightly in 2018 and faced a major challenge from State Treasurer Jake LaTurner, while also facing election fraud fees.
De La Isla has been mayor of Topeka since 2018 and in the past spent five years on the municipal council. She is the first single, Latino mother to mayor.
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8 p.m.
A Kansas lawmaker who changed parties and raised eyebrows with the successful fundraising of his smooth crusade won the Democratic nomination for a seat in the United States Senate.
Democrats expected Senator Barbara Bollier to win Tuesday’s election because she raised $8 million for her career and has that of party leaders, adding former U.S. Health and Human Services secretary. And two-term housekeeper Kathleen Sebelius. His only major opponent was the retired Wichita Judicial Services Officer and common Congressional candidate Robert Tillman.
Bollier is a retired Kansas City-area anesthesiologist and a moderate former Republican who made headlines for changing games in 2018.
She is the seat occupied by Senator Pat Roberts, who is retired for 4 terms. Republicans had a major box of 11 other people crowned through Western Kansas rep. Roger Marshall, far-right conservative Kris Kobach and Kansas City corporate plumbing founder Bob Hamilton.
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7:05 p.m.
Polls were closed in much of Kansas in a number one election that presents a questionable career for the Republican nomination for a Senate seat.
The polls remained open an hour later Tuesday in four counties along the Colorado border in Mountain Time than in the rest of the state.
At least 265,000 ballots were balloted before Tuesday’s election.
The GOP poll for Tuesday’s election included 11 applicants for the position held by retired Republican Sen. Pat Roberts. They are led by the establishment-supported representative of Western Kansas, Roger Marshall and conservative polarizer Kris Kobach.
Freshman Rep. Steve Watkins was seeking to fend off the challenge of state treasurer Jake LaTurner, The No. One Republican in the 2nd Eastern Kansas Congress District. The election came here three weeks after felony charges were filed in opposition to Watkins, accusing him of illegally voting in 2019 and other crimes. He called the accusations “false.”
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1 p.m.
Election officials in 3 of Kansas’ largest counties reported an uneventful start to vote in the state’s number one election, in part due to upfront accumulation and mail voting.
Nathan Carter, office administrator for the Johnson County Election Office, said no major problems were reported Tuesday morning. Election workers are concentrating not only on in-person voting but also collecting thousands of mail ballots. The county sent out 106,000 mail-in ballots and received about 70,000 before Tuesday. Voters can bring their ballots to polling sites or to drop-off boxes through Election Day.
Voting in a consistent person in Sedgwick County, with short or no waiting times. Assistant Election Commissioner Melissa Schnieders said the county had sent about 56,000 ballots by mail for the election, an acute accumulation of past elections. She said Tuesday’s elections were “pretty normal,” with the exception of the preventive measures the county has put in place in reaction to the coronavirus pandemic.
And Shawnee County Elections Commissioner Andrew Howell said the turnout in that county “isn’t huge.”
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Polls have opened in Kansas for a number one election that features a tight festival for the Republican nomination for a Senate seat.
The GOP ballot for Tuesday’s election included 11 candidates for the seat held by retiring four-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts. They are led by party establishment-backed western Kansas Rep. Roger Marshall and polarizing conservative Kris Kobach.
Marshall has key teams in business, agriculture and anti-abortion, but Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and others have failed to convince President Donald Trump to approve the congressman. Kobach is a former Kansas secretary of state who lost the governorship of Kansas 2018 after alienating independent and moderate REPUBLICAN voters.
At least 234,000 ballots were balloted before Tuesday’s election.