KS-SEN: With Pompeo Out, Republicans Face Kansas Senate Race Headache

[RandySF]

Pompeo’s decision complicates GOP efforts to defend their 53-47 Senate majority in November’s elections. The national party and its allies face the prospect of having to put resources into Kansas, even though Republicans haven’t lost a Senate race there since 1932.

Pompeo has said repeatedly that he’d remain secretary of state as long as President Donald Trump will keep him. But his travels to Kansas last year — and comments from Trump — kept buzz about a potential candidacy alive.

He told reporters Tuesday: “I said the same thing yesterday that I’ve said for months. No.”

Fears that a Kobach nomination could put the seat in play arose even as four-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, now 83, announced a year ago that he wouldn’t seek re-election. Kobach lost the Kansas governor’s race in 2018 to Democrat Laura Kelly — a contest many in the GOP thought winnable.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee questioned Kobach’s ability to win a general election when he announced his candidacy last summer.

And Scott Reed, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s chief political strategist, who ran Bob Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign, said, “We continue to think Kobach is a loser.”



https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/08/with_pompeo_out_republicans_face_kansas_senate_race_headache_142104.html

[Iliyah]

1. With articles stating that Pompeo talked t-rump into the

bombing, I think he needs to lay very low.

That said, could be a Dem pick up

[MuseRider]

2. Kobach is beatable.

I cannot imagine him coming through the primary though. The other 2 might be hard to beat. We have not sent a Dem to the Senate since the 1930's, sad to say. Our candidate was elected as a Republican but she was one of those that switched parties. Maybe there is a chance and if Kobach gets through the primary there is a better chance I think.