CPAC chief backed for Kansas Senate bid by Reagan’s PAC

By Paul Bedard

Published January 7, 2019 9:14pm ET

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CPAC chief backed for Kansas Senate bid by Reagan’s PAC — Matt Schlapp, chairman of the conservative lobbying organization American Conservative Union, speaks at the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum during the NRA annual meeting in Dallas on Friday, May 4, 2018. | (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

Conservative Political Action Conference boss Matt Schlapp, considering a bid for an open Senate seat in Kansas in 2020, is already picking up support.

The political action committee established in 1977 by former President Ronald Reagan on Monday backed his candidacy to replace retiring Republican Sen. Pat Roberts.

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