In the Kansas Primary Election yesterday, Gov. Brownback supporting Conservatives found themselves going down in flames, with incumbents being thrown out of office in races from Johnson County to Reno County, and moderate Republicans, some recently former (D)s, doing the tossing. Whether it was the Senate or the House, nothing could stop the voter refusal of the Brownback plans.
The damage didn’t just extend to the Kansas House & Senate, though. Gone is Tim Huelskamp (R), the U.S. Representative from the 1st District and a member of the Freedom Caucus and the Tea Party was unseated by a Physician Roger Marshall.
Tim Huelskamp had his doubts about Trump. But he was equivocal about it, "hey, fellow voters, maybe the sociopath Trump would be okay if he’d just modulate his insanity in a, let’s say, politically correct way."
In the end, moderate Republicans did not just drive the bus over the competition; they crushed those on the inside of the Brownback plan.
The run of Brownback favored allies in the State looks like a firing squad, as Brownback supporters who faced opposition ran into a buzzsaw of those who voiced the ‘Throw the bums out’ complaint. Now, many races for the fall will show a new landscape: Democrats VS moderate Republicans in a chance to reshape the State House with new ideas. This gives a whole new look for both parties in the fall, in many races locking out Koch-supported allied groups like AFP and others, who openly opposed these Primary challengers.
Now, the voters in Kansas will get to choose a direction forward with issues and substance. Conservative Republicans in some Districts could be lost to a (D) in the fall. This may be a scary omen of what is happening in their party.
Political insiders say you have to go back to the 1990s.
List of incumbent conservatives who lost:
State Senate
Jeff Melcher — District 11
Greg Smith — District 21
Forest Knox — District 14
Virgil Peck - District 15
Tom Arpke - District 24
Terry Bruce - District 34
Larry Powell - District 39
State House
Craig McPherson - District 8
Brett M. Hildabrand - District 15
Rob Bruchman - District 20
Jerry Lunn - District 28
Charles Macheers - District 39
Connie O'Brien - District 42
Will Carpenter - District 75
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