Tag: Kansas

Republican state treasurer Ron Estes won the Kansas 4th Congressional District in the special election to replace CIA Director Mike Pompeo. (Fernando Salazar/The Wichita Eagle via AP)

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Republicans’ not-exactly-overwhelming victory

Michael Barone · April 12, 2017 5:03 am

Democrat James Thompson came within 10 points of Republican Kansas State Treasurer Ron Estes, shown, in the state's safely GOP 4th congressional district. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

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Republicans hobble across the finish line in Kansas

David Freddoso · April 12, 2017 4:03 am

Estes won the special election race to replace former Rep. Mike Pompeo, who took over as CIA director. (April 11, 2017)

Republicans hold Kansas House seat with late Trump support

Al Weaver · April 12, 2017 2:49 am

GOP congressional candidate in the 4th district Ron Estes votes at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Wichita, Kan. The special election Tuesday between Democrat James Thompson and Estes to fill the seat vacated by CIA Director Mike Pompeo is being watched across the nation for signs of a backlash against Republicans or waning support from Trump's supporters. (Jaime Green/The Wichita Eagle via AP)

Republicans hope to fend off Democratic surge in Kansas

David M. Drucker · April 11, 2017 8:45 pm

President Trump endorsed the Kansas Republican candidate in the race to replace Mike Pompeo in the House by saying he needs Ron Estes in Congress to help advance his plans. (Bo Rader/Wichita Eagle via AP)

Trump urges voters to send Kansas Republican Ron Estes to Congress

Kyle Feldscher · April 11, 2017 1:25 pm

In this March 23, 2017, photo, Democrat James Thompson, a candidate for Kansas' 4th Congressional District, speaks during a debate in Wichita, Kan. Thompson faces Republican Ron Estes and Libertarian Chris Rockhold in the special general election race April 11, 2017, to replace former GOP Rep. Mike Pompeo, who was appointed director of the Central Intelligence Agency. (Bo Rader/Wichita Eagle via AP)

Pence joins effort to save ‘safe’ GOP seat from the Democrats

David M. Drucker · April 7, 2017 6:52 pm

The Kansas House voted 81-44 to override the veto, three votes short of the threshold needed to succeed. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)

Kansas fails to override veto of Medicaid expansion

Robert King · April 3, 2017 5:30 pm

The vote was 81 to 44 to override, just a few votes short of the two-thirds needed for passage. (AP Photo, Topeka Capital-Journal, Thad Allton)

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Kansas House upholds veto, blocks Medicaid expansion

David Freddoso · April 3, 2017 5:22 pm

Audience members react as a woman expresses anguish about proposed cuts to Medicaid during a town hall hosted by U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., on March 24 at the Commerce Center Community Room in Paducah, Ky. (Ryan Hermens/The Paducah Sun via AP)

Last-minute Medicaid expansions complicate Obamacare repeal

Robert King · April 3, 2017 4:01 am

Brownback said he was vetoing the bill because it "fails to serve the truly vulnerable before the able-bodied, lacks work requirements to help able-bodied Kansans escape poverty, and burdens the state budget with unrestrainable entitlement cuts." (Thad Allton/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP)

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback vetoes Medicaid expansion

Robert King · March 30, 2017 3:19 pm

Special election results in Connecticut and Delaware confirm the recent surge in Democratic interest in voting and activism. (AP Photo/Matt Volz)

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Special elections: Increased Dem turnout shows midterm headwinds already howling for Republicans

David Freddoso · March 1, 2017 5:32 pm

Indians hold placards in front of the cremation pyre of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a 32-year-old engineer who was killed in an apparently racially motivated shooting in a crowded Kansas bar, at a crematorium in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Feb.28, 2017. According to witnesses, the gunman yelled "get out of my country" at Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani before he opened fire at Austin's Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, on Wednesday evening. Both men had come to the U.S. from India to study and worked as engineers at GPS-maker Garmin. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

White House calls Kansas shooting ‘racially motivated hatred’

Kelly Cohen · February 28, 2017 8:13 pm