Shock!!! New York Times Scores Early Rounds for Kansas 3RD District…

SHOCK!!! NEW YORK TIMES SCORES EARLY ROUNDS FOR KANSAS 3RD DISTRICT CONTENDER SHARICE 'NO SHOW' DAVIDS BY EPIC MARGIN: DO YOU BUY IT??? Sure it is. Reality: This thing seems like it's gonna be close and smarter political pundits are going to wait until after it's over to tell us that they were right.

Biden endorses Davids in Kansas’ 3rd District congressional race

Former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed Monday the Democratic nominee Sharice Davids for the state's 3rd congressional district seat held by Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder. Biden, a former U.S. senator who served under President Barack Obama, said Kansans in the Kansas City -area district should turn to Davids as a voice of the middle class and people who want to expand access to health care.

Trump seeks to energize Kansas base

President Donald Trump's campaign rally for Kansas Republicans on Saturday celebrated confirmation for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and toasted the prospects of a surge toward victory by GOP candidates for governor and Congress struggling for a clean edge in red-state Kansas.

Ohio contest could signal Democrats’ momentum for November

President Donald Trump's preferred congressional candidate - and his chief legislative achievement - are about to be tested in battleground Ohio in the season's final high-stakes special election. The midsummer affair comes as Trump's shadow looms over primary contests in four other states on Tuesday, none bigger than Kansas, where the Republican president roiled the governor's race Monday by opposing the sitting GOP governor on the eve of the election.

Trump shadow looms over Tuesday elections in Ohio, Kansas

President Donald Trump's preferred congressional candidate - and his chief legislative achievement - are about to be tested in battleground Ohio in the season's final high-stakes special election. The midsummer affair comes as Trump's shadow looms over primary contests in four other states on Tuesday, none bigger than Kansas, where the Republican president roiled the governor's race Monday by opposing the sitting GOP governor on the eve of the election.

Democrats in Kansas weigh how far left the party can go and win in the Trump era

Democrats in the Kansas City suburbs are set to decide on Tuesday what type of candidate they believe can win in a red state during Donald Trump's presidency. The House primary in Kansas' 3rd District is a microcosm of the ideological battles playing out in the Democratic Party in House races this year and ahead of the 2020 presidential election, when the same battles will be front and center.

Capitol Insider: Kansas’ congressional primaries inspire deep ballots, political newcomers

Two dozen U.S. House candidates put it on the line Tuesday in primary elections testing viability of a novice  Topeka politician fueled by a deep-pocket super PAC, implications of Democrat Hillary Clinton's success two years ago in the 3rd District and strength of Republican incumbents in 2018. Three veterans -- U.S. Reps.

Watbill Funding Trump’s Border Wall Includes Common-Sense Immigration Reforms

Budget appropriators in the House of Representatives approved a Department of Homeland Security funding bill Thursday. In addition to $5 billion for the president's border wall , the Appropriations Committee advanced the bill with several amendments, including three authored by Republicans, that would improve the legal immigration system.

Kansas congressional race attractsnational spotlight. But who is the star?

One day in July demonstrated the identity crisis facing Kansas Democrats as they seek to capture a congressional seat for the first time in a decade. Roughly 2,000 people packed into a swampy-hot hall at the Reardon Convention Center in Kansas City, Kan., Friday night to hear U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic socialist, as he led a rally for Brent Welder, a Bonner Springs attorney mounting a campaign for Kansas' 3rd District on an unabashedly progressive platform.

Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez to rally Democrats in deep-red Kansas

Two luminaries in the democratic socialist movement - one its national leader, the other its new star - are descending on solidly Republican Kansas on Friday, taking their emboldened liberal message to an unlikely testing ground before next month's congressional primaries. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who rose to fame following her surprise win in last month's New York congressional primary, see an opportunity to influence Democratic voters in Kansas ahead of the state's Aug. 7 primary.

Even in GOP bastion Kansas, 2 congressional seats in play

In this Aug. 22, 2017, file photo, U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-Kan., speaks with reporters before a town hall meeting in the Olathe, Kan. Competitive races for two of Kansas' four U.S. House seats are making Republicans sweat to keep their all-GOP delegation.

Trump to meet House GOP amid furor over immigrant families Source: Cox Media Group

As President Donald Trump lashed out at Democrats on Monday, demanding again that Congress act to tighten federal immigration laws, more Republicans in the Congress began to distance themselves from a recent Trump Administration policy change, which has resulted in the separation of some 2,200 illegal immigrant families detained by border authorities. "As the son of a social worker, I know the human trauma that comes with children being separated from their parents," said Rep. Kevin Yoder , as he asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to "take immediate action to end the practice of separating children from families at the border."

Ryan not comfortable with separating parents, kids at border Source: AP

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he's not comfortable with a Trump administration policy that separates children and parents at the southern border, as House Republicans, under increasing pressure to address the humanitarian crisis, raced to finish a new immigration bill. "We don't want kids to be separated from their parents," Ryan said, adding that the policy is being dictated by a court ruling that prevents children who enter the country illegally from being held in custody for long periods.

Kansas lawmaker receives letter pressuring him to prevent family separations at US border

Thousands nationwide will participate in a movement to stop the separation of families at the U-S border on Thursday and one Kansas lawmaker is feeling the pressure to demand an end to the issue. Democratic state Rep. Jarrod Ousley of Merriam and Republican state Rep. Linda Gallagher of Lenexa delivered a letter Wednesday to Republican state Rep. Kevin Yoder's office in Overland Park.