Kansas Chamber Of Commerce Honcho On Kobach: Why Take The Risk?!?

Conservatives in the Sunflower State continue to doubt the "electability" of Kris Kobach.

To be fair . . . Kobach remains the front runner.

However, this scathing remark from a Kansas biz leader offers an important perspective . . .

But Warren, Mattivi and their supporters want to make the race about electability, too — even if it seems as though any Democrat would be a weak match for any Republican, given inflation, gas prices and anger over COVID-19 restrictions. The Democrats are running first-time candidate Chris Mann, an attorney, former police officer and former local prosecutor.

“Why take a risk?” said Alan Cobb, president and CEO of the influential Kansas Chamber of Commerce, which has endorsed Warren in the attorney general’s race. “There are exceptions to waves all the time.”

Kobach’s years of pushing tough immigration and voter ID policies, coupled with a brash persona, turned off independent and moderate GOP voters in the 2018 governor’s race. Prominent Republicans then tagged him as too risky a bet in 2020, and he lost the Senate primary by 14 percentage points to U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall, who then won the general election.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Comeback for Kansas's Kris Kobach? - Newstalk KZRG

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas voters have said no to Kris Kobach twice over the past four years. But he is nonetheless betting that this can be the year he makes a political comeback. His losses, including a 2018 defeat that handed the governor's office in this Republican-leaning state to a Democrat, might end other political careers.