TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on Kansas’ primary election (all times local):
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 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.
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.
Topeka’s mayor has easily won the Democratic nomination for an eastern Kansas congressional seat.
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 have close across most of Kansas in a primary election that features a contentious race for the Republican nomination for an open 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 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, 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 Elections Commissioner Andrew Howell said the turnout in that county “isn’t huge.”
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7 a.m.
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 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.