The Kansas Democrats seek to get rid of the reputation of the "red rectangle" of the state

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The Kansas Democrats seek to get rid of the reputation of the "red rectangle" of the state













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Like the tornado that tore Dorothy Gale from her farm in this state and left her in Oz once in a fictitious time, Americans are currently watching an electoral storm that threatens to change conventional political assumptions about their heads.



Democrats from coast to coast are expected to change seats in the House of Representatives in mid-year elections, but perhaps nowhere as unique as in Kansas, where two competitive districts are side by side in the third Eastern of the state, but where the races ... While they occupy the same political atmosphere, they are very different in their appearance, like the indigos and oranges that are parallel through a sunset of the Sunflower State.



The uninterrupted block of red that ran to the middle of the map of the 2016 presidential election, and made President Donald Trump so proud that the map was hanging in the White House, does not accurately reflect the numbers with which He faced opposition in "The Republican states, particularly in Kansas, a state with an independent vein that manifests itself in the wave cycles." 2018 does not seem to be any different.





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Democratic congressional candidate Sharice Davids speaks with supporters at his campaign office on October 21, 2018 in Overland Park, Kan.

"Now we have a lot of people looking at Kansas and maybe they were not sure which red rectangle we were," said Sharice Davids, the Democratic candidate for the 3rd congressional district of Kansas.



Davids campaign has been widely covered by national media as the epitome of a series of multi-colored waves of 2018 in one. She is a Native American lesbian woman who graduated from Cornell Law School, competed professionally as a mixed martial artist and obtained a White House scholarship.



But even if the six Democratic primary elections in August that won by 2,000 votes raised a less intriguing candidate, the suburban Kansas City district still seemed to be on the cusp of change.



"I think that people who have not been here or who are not familiar with the state perceive us as the land of the Wizard of Oz ... but we have everything from that really small city, stereotypical communities of Great Plains, to suburbs, rich , highly ... educated communities, with Democratic tendencies, with hundreds of thousands of people living in them, "said Patrick Miller, assistant professor of political science at the University of Kansas.



"There is a true breadth of diversity in the state."





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Representative Kevin Yoder, R-Kan., Speaks with supporters during a parade in Overland Park, Kan., On September 29, 2018. 

Wyandotte, the fourth most populous county in Kansas, is a blue dot on Trump's red map, but this and Johnson County, the most populous in the state, make up the majority of the third district. Johnson County preferred the president to Hillary Clinton for less than 8,000 votes and the district as a whole went to Clinton by 1 percentage point, even when Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-Kan., Returned to Washington for his fourth term for 10 -point of margin.



As one of 25 districts across the country won Clinton, but represented by a Republican, and with a growing population of young and diverse voters, the 3rd immediately became a major goal of the Democrats in 2018.



"That is the stereotypical area of ​​the suburbs that we are seeing at this moment and that is not particularly fond of Donald Trump"Miller said.





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I think this year we are restoring expectations about who is running for office.

The transformation of the electorate of East Kansas was illustrated last Tuesday in the parking lot of Sonic Drive-In, where Davids met with supporters ready to cast their vote on the first day of early voting by Wyandotte.



After addressing the voters, a number of men and women, young and old, white and black, one of whom wore a rainbow flag, others who looked like college students and who wore Kansas Jayhawk clothes, the candidate by The first time he reflected on a journey that began less than a year ago, and was colored by his own varied experiences.



"I think we are restoring expectations this year about who is running for office, about whom we support as candidates," Davids said. "We are restoring expectations about what we expect from our Congress, we want a Congress that better reflects the experiences we have as a community or as a country."



But while Trump's reaction in a demographically changing Clinton district may be enough to lead Democrats to victories in several House races (the same Davids is given a chance of victory of 7 in 9 by ABC News (538), the calculation is more complex as one travels west on the Kansas Turnpike.



As the suburbs give way to wheat fields, red deepens, but not so much that the Democrats are not so competitive.



In the second district of the state, a much larger swath that envelops the third semicircular district from the border of Nebraska-Missouri to the north, to Oklahoma to the south, the party capitalized on the reaction of George W. Bush in 2006: a year in that the Democrats won 31 seats in the House of Representatives - to elect Rep. Nancy Boyda, whose sole two-year term interrupted what would otherwise have been 24 years of Republican Party rule.





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Paul Davis, the Democratic candidate in the 2nd Congressional District in Kansas, answers questions during a press conference in Topeka, Kansas, on August 24, 2018.

Less affluent and more socially conservative than the 3rd District, it is less likely that a blatantly liberal campaign like Davids' would have been so successful in the 2nd, where Trump won by 17 points and Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan. to its fifth term by 28 percent. But Jenkins, one of the Republican Party's top women in the House of Representatives after four years as vice president of the House Republican Conference, announced her retirement in January, opening the door to a more competitive open-seat election.



Enter Paul Davis, a 12-year member of the Kansas House of Representatives and former minority leader, and the state's Democratic candidate for governor in 2014, where he fell to less than four points before beating Governor Sam Brownback. Davis' experience makes him a kind of atypical value among the candidates for Congress for the first time in his party, many of whom, like Davids, have never held elected offices, but it is also a tangible asset in District 2, where built a support base. four years ago.



"It's very easy for someone to get up and say, 'I'm an outsider and I'm going to do all of these things.'" But they've never done it before, in fact, I've done it, "Davis said in an interview, adding that his ethics Bipartisan work is part of the reason why he won the second district by 7 points during his career as governor, and why he has attracted 36 backing from elected Republican officials. time around





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They want Washington to work, but they want it to work for them.

Davis' pragmatism, a quality that could turn off the most liberal Democrats in the nation's extreme left enclaves, may be exactly why his campaign has been so competitive as the final week of the cycle approaches. . Five thirty eight rates the race was a "launch". The former state representative, who said he proactively approached Trump voters and found common ground, "wants to" drain the swamp, "I want to" drain the swamp "" - it's about changing the tenor in DC, but also deliver tangible results for Kansas.



"They want Washington to work, but they want it to work for them," Davis said of the residents of the Second District.



"The only balance I look for is what I have in my pocket," said Tim Hersh, 57, of Topeka, a lifelong Republican voter and volunteer for Davis' opponent, Republican Steve Watkins. In a Republican office in the state capital where his fellow volunteers called voters, Hersh said it was Davis' record, one of raising taxes, he said, which sealed his hug to Watkins, who is a stranger.





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President Donald Trump, left, speaks with the Republican candidate for the 2nd District of the Kansas Congress, Steve Watkins, during a campaign rally at the Kansas Expocentre, on October 6, 2018 in Topeka, Kan.

Only by experience, District 2 is 180 degrees from the multitude of races across the country where it is a fresh-faced Democrat facing an entrenched Republican. Watkins, who had never run for public office before this year, claims to have been apolitical during his time as an Army Ranger and he took a meeting last year with local Democrats who claim he was feeling a career as a socially liberal moderate. Watkins denies that this was the goal of the meeting.



Trump and Vice President Mike Pence lent their support to Watkins' candidacy after a tough election of seven candidates, but, as Davis's bipartisan support shows, there are many others in the party who are skeptical of the 42-year-old . Veteran of the army Much of the hesitation is due to the multitude of controversies courted by the Republican.



The star of Kansas City reported In September, Watkins filled out his resume with claims that he "started" and "owned" an engineering and security company, statements that were not true. The CEO of the parent company of the organization Watkins referred to went so far as to say that the candidate was "nobody I've heard of."



The Watkins campaign has pushed history back by explaining that Watkins never claimed ownership, despite the tweets eliminated since then, stating otherwise, "erroneously sent by a minor staff member," the campaign said, noting the statement from a co-worker who claimed Watkins. and a small team started and grew the international operations of the firm. Watkins himself told ABC News that The Star's article "did not accurately reflect the reality of the situation."



"It's false news," Watkins said.



A series of additional reports have detailed the more than $ 1 million that Watkins begets. injected in a Super PAC to support his son, his disputed claims of heroism during a deadly earthquake in the bush. Everest and the performance in the Iditarod sled dog race, and the open letter Signed by 40 local republicans denouncing his candidacy during the primary.



Watkins noted negative attention to campaign tactics.



"These accusations of a liar are simply not true, they have no basis and are attempts by a desperate opponent to try to win an election," he said.





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Kris Kobach, Republican Secretary of State and candidate for governor, answers a question during the Kansas Governor's Debate at the luncheon for the Kansas Broadcasters Association on October 16, 2018 in Wichita, Kan.

Whether because of the questions surrounding Watkins or Davis' efforts to woo Republican voters, the second district could be one of the closest races in the country next week.



Along with a governor's election with a polarizing Secretary of State, Kris Kobach, and a former independent Democratic candidate who could play the spoiler when taking out the voters of the Democrat Laura Kelly, and Kansans could attend a late election night. A Democratic official predicted that the results of the two races would be synchronized, since cross-voters considered individual candidates instead of voting against their usual party line.



Even before the winners are declared, the concept of their competitive careers that play a role in a national political transformation was becoming a point of pride in this pocket of the sunflower state.



"I think that because of the way this electoral cycle is developing, many people take it into their own hands and say that we need change, and that there is something really stimulating and empowering about it, and I think what is happening in our district and in Kansas is no different than that, "Davids said.



Some Kansans were so enthusiastic that they leaned on the horns of their cars as they passed the early voting demonstration of Sonic and Davids, with each bust provoking an ovation from supporters of the Democrats.



"They are honking for democracy," joked Davids.

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