Kobach struggles to get his fellow Republicans to publicly support him. many are supporting the Dem

[Demovictory9]

Even many Kansas Republicans are terrified of what will happen if Kris Kobach becomes their governor.

With just over a week until the final votes are cast, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is still too toxic to get unified support from his fellow Republicans in his run for Kansas governor.

While Kansas is a deep-red state, a chorus of former and current GOP officials have publicly signaled their support for Kobach’s Democratic opponent, Laura Kelly.

To date, nearly 30 prominent Republicans in Kansas have crossed the aisle to side with Kelly over Kobach.

They include two of the state’s former GOP governors, Mike Hayden and Bill Graves; former Republican U.S. Senator Nancy Kassebaum; and more than two dozen other current and former state officials.

And while not all Kansas Republicans have endorsed Kobach’s Democratic opponent, plenty of others would prefer to avoid talking about Kobach at all.

Nearly 40 percent of Republicans in the Kansas state legislature wouldn’t tell the Wichita Eagle last month if they planned on supporting Kobach in November.

https://shareblue.com/kobach-struggles-to-get-his-fellow-republicans-to-publicly-support-him/

[Demovictory9]

1. for these reasons

Kobach has done much to deserve the doubts of his own party.

He is promising to enact a radical tax-cutting agenda combined with massive public spending cuts, even as Kansas continues to reel from the economic disaster created by similar policies under former GOP governor Sam Brownback.

“Kris Kobach wants to repeat the Brownback experiment we fought so hard to end,” warned former Senate president Dick Bond, a Johnson County Republican. “He will take those dangerous policies even further and devastate Kansas.”

Kobach also has a long track record of being a relentless liar in the mold of Trump. He’s made himself particularly infamous for championing the completely imaginary “problem” of voter fraud.

After Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million votes to Hillary Clinton in 2016, he picked Kobach to co-chair a presidential commission to look into voter fraud. Trump himself regularly lies by insisting without evidence that “millions and millions” of American voted illegally.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Hoping so much the right resolution will come from this election. It's so important. Thanks. n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. further reading

From Gothmog's post back in March:
Kobach expert witness: Carlos Murguia sounds foreign. ACLU attorney: Thats a federal judge
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210350534

Federal judge scolds Kobach for violating her trust at contempt hearing
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article206025749.html

Trump's claims of voter fraud are on trial in Kansas and Kris Kobach is losing
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-claims-voter-fraud-are-trial-kansas-kris-kobach-ncna858266

Kris Kobach Just Got Humiliated in Federal Court
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/kris-kobach-just-got-humiliated-in-federal-court/

Kobach witness can’t support claim that illegal votes helped Hillary Clinton
https://www.cjonline.com/news/20180313/kobach-witness-cant-support-claim-that-illegal-votes-helped-hillary-clinton

Judge blasts Kris Kobach’s efforts to help suspended voters in Kansas
https://www.cjonline.com/news/20180320/judge-blasts-kris-kobachs-efforts-to-help-suspended-voters-in-kansas

AND:
Pseudoscience on Trial: The Spectacular Fall of President Trumps Voter Fraud Thesis
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210403135

[KrazyinKS]

4. I am afraid they will vote for this guy

They really will, Laura Kelly really has sharpened up her ads. A lot of Republican ads for her and against Kobach. But these guys are breath takingly stupid, they will vote for Kobach and he will win I am afraid.

[Amimnoch]

5. Really.. it's the fable of the scorpion and the frog..

It’s just in their nature.

[TlalocW]

6. The problem is

He's currently Secretary of State, which means his office is in charge of counting the votes. I hope Laura Kelly/the democrats have some operation in place where they can get the courts to shutter Kobach's office and move vote records to a safe place if things start getting hinky.

TlalocW