TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on Kansas’ primary election (all times local):
10:30 p.m.
Kali Barnett won the Number One Democrat in Kansas’ first district. The author and music instructor for 35-year-old Garden City defeated Christy Davis, a former executive director of Symphony in Flint Hills.
Barnett will face the true legacy Salina and former Lieutenant Governor Tracey Mann in the November competition for the seat in congress vacant through Republican Roger Marshall, who on Tuesday won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.
The seat hasn’t been won by a Democrat since the 1950s. It’s one of the nation’s most Republican districts and has elected three congressmen who went on to become U.S. senators over the past 50 years.
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10:15 p.m.
Real estate broker Salina and former Lieutenant Governor Tracey Mann won number one Republican in Kansas’ first district.
Mann defeated the eye surgeon and Finney County Commissioner Bill Clifford, medical assistant Jerry Molstad and the Reverend Michael Soetaert.
Mann will face the Democratic nominee in the November contest for the vacant Congressional seat through Republican Roger Marshall, who ran for the U.S. Senate. But Mann will be heavily favored in a district that hasn’t been won by a Democrat since the 1950s.
Mann campaigned for an anti-abortion and pro-gun candidate. He said he was planning President Donald Trump’s policies.
The mostly rural farming district is one of the nation’s most Republican and has elected three congress members who went on to become U.S. senators over the past 50 years.
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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.
Kansas’ state treasurer has unseated freshman Rep. Steve Watkins in the Republican primary with Watkins facing felony criminal charges.
Treasurer Jake LaTurner’s victory in Tuesday’s election came only three weeks after the district attorney in Watkins’ home of Shawnee County filed the charges.
Watkins is accused of voting illegally in a Topeka City Council race in November 2019 and trying to mislead a sheriff’s detective investigating Watkins’ listing of a UPS Inc. store postal box as his residence on a state voter registration form. Watkins has called the criminal charges “bogus” but LaTurner argued that the criminal case made Watkins a vulnerable general election candidate.
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 appointed Rep. Roger Marshall to the Senate to polarize 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.
8:25 p.m.
Topeka’s mayor has easily won the Democratic nomination for an eastern Kansas congressional seat.
Mayor Michelle De La Isla prevailed in Tuesday’s primary election against University of Kansas instructor and graduate student James Windholz. De La Isla had the backing of prominent Democrats.
Democrats believe De La Isla could turn the seat in the Republican-leaning second district even though President Donald Trump carried it handily 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.
Polling stations remained open an hour later Tuesday in 4 counties along the Colorado border at 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 three of Kansas’ largest counties reported an uneventful start to voting in the state’s primary election, due in part to an increase in advance and mail-in balloting.
Nathan Carter, administrator of the Johnson County Elections Office, said no primary disorders were reported Tuesday morning. Election officials participate not only in face-to-face voting, but also in collecting thousands of ballots by mail. The county mailed 106,000 ballots and won about 70,000 through Tuesday. Voters can take their ballots to polling stations or polls on polling 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 Election Commissioner Andrew Howell said turnout in that county was “not huge.” He said only three or four poll workers out of more than 400 didn’t show up for election duty, which was typical of most elections.
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7 a.m.
Polls have opened in Kansas for a primary election that features a tight contest for the Republican nomination for an open Senate seat.
The GOP vote for Tuesday’s election included 11 applicants for the post 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.
Marshall has support from key business, agriculture and anti-abortion groups, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others failed to persuade President Donald Trump to endorse the congressman. Kobach is a former Kansas secretary of state who lost the 2018 race for Kansas governor after alienating independent and moderate GOP voters.
At least 234,000 ballots were balloted before Tuesday’s election.