Posted on 04/11/2017 8:30:25 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
Kansas state Treasurer Ron Estes held off a stronger-than-expected challenge from Democratic civil rights attorney James Thompson Tuesday night as the GOP won the first special congressional election since President Trump's inauguration.
The election was held to fill the House seat vacated by CIA Director Mike Pompeo, a former three-term representative of Kansas' 4th district.
With 94 percent of the precincts reporting, Estes had won 52 percent of the vote to 46 percent for Thompson. The Republican's margin was just under 6,500 votes. By contrast, Pompeo's narrowest victory, in 2014, was by just under 70,000 votes.
The race had been closely watched nationally for signs of a backlash against Republicans or waning support from Trump voters in a reliably Republican district. Trump won 60 percent of the votes cast in the 17-county congressional district this past November.
The president himself entered the fray Monday with a recorded get-out-the-vote call on Estes' behalf.
Estes supported Trump last year and backs the president's policies. He supports the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, backs funding for a wall on the border with Mexico, opposes funding for Planned Parenthood, and does not believe an independent investigation into Russian hacking of the election is needed.
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According to our Never Trumpsters, this would be a walk in the park of the rat candidate.
We have Voter ID here so that helps to cut down on illegals voting. Plus, Kris Kobach has done a great job as Secretary of State.
I've been voting in Kansas since the late 80's and it just seems like it's the norm for low voter turnouts in off year elections. Plus, the dems spent a lot of time and resources here. They had the advantages and still couldn't put their candidate over the top, LOL.
CGato
Bill Clinton and the Kenyan are like the backers of the losers.
Have they supported a winner any place?
52-46 isn’t razor thin.
So let me get this straight...a candidate wins by 6 percentage points and that’s a narrow win. He won by around 6500 votes in what undoubtedly was a smaller turnout than last November during a hotly contested presidential election. Yet the reporter still has the gall to compare tonight’s margin to the naturally much larger margin from last November. Cute. Highly manipulative, but cute in a snake-like way.
52-46 isn’t razor thin.
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52-46 for a D/Lib is a runaway landslide and the R candidate is ordered to never show his face again.
52-46 for an R has the D’s calling for a recount in a race too close to call....
I would never have thought of nor described Mike Pompeo as a dynamic charmer but compared to the much more polished Pompeo, Ron Estes is a straight forward accountant-type.
The dims pumped lots of cash into this race from their national coffers and pumped up another sleeper into a country and western "good ole boy" to shuck and jive the folks.
Fortunately, a strong "get out the vote" run by Kansans For Life and lots of other grass roots folks from the locals, fought back against the big money abortion lobby, the gun control lobby, the gay lobby and all of the other leftist groups around the country, who ran a phony leftist Thompson against a genuine conservative, Ron Estes.
If leftists were at all honest about their intentions, another one could never get elected again in KS but our so-called GOP "moderates" will run stealth candidates in Primaries to defeat a conservative, then they support the real hard leftist in the race.
KS is Red but elections are really between a true conservative the Democrat and the RINO Party! A tough slog!!!
Winning by 6,500 when the last guy never won by less than 70k isn’t a great thing to hoot about.
I’ll TAKE IT but our people need to find out why the drastic difference.
The margin here is concerning, but the question is whether the Democrats can keep this kind of energy up through 2018. And if they can get their voters to the polls in a mid-term.
Those are both pretty tall hills.
He was not a good campaigner...he’ll probably be a great asset for Trump going forward, but he’s got no pizzaz!!
That’ll do it.
But as long as he proves himself, he will win easily next time.
Not that a 6 percent margin isn’t kind of winning easily in itself.
Estes had won 52 percent of the vote to 46 percent for Thompson. The Republican’s margin was just under 6,500 votes. By contrast, Pompeo’s narrowest victory, in 2014, was by just under 70,000 votes...
If 6,500 votes gave him a 6 percent lead, WHAT THE HELL DID POMPEO WIN BY with his lowest being 70k!?!
Must have been astronomical.
Found it.
67 to 33!! Good Lord!!
This is good. Some of the Dems are trying to act pleased, because it was closer than it should have been. But there were a number of factors at work here, including the fact that Estes was the state treasurer under the seriously unpopular Sam Brownback. And Estes apparently ran a lackluster campaign. A win is a win!
Rush Limbaugh deserves a lot of credit for this win.
“Estes was the state treasurer under the seriously unpopular Sam Brownback. And Estes apparently ran a lackluster campaign.”
Yup...the good news is the guy is in lockstep with Trump on all his big issues...every vote counts with all the squishy R’s in DC.
That it was only 6% may have more to do with a lackluster campaign or relatively weak Republican candidate and less to do with President Trump.
“less to do with President Trump.”
Yup...I think Trump really gave him a boost. The next one to win is Georgia, in a district that Trump won by only 1 point. But the GOP has a strong field running and they are well connected to the state machine. If Georgia comes through, then Montana should give Trump the sweep in these special elections. Good stuff for Trump, but even more important, to take down the moral in the Rat base and the DNC. The MSM won’t be able to put lipstick on this pig!!
Keep these margins in mind as Pompeo won by much more. This is a deep red state. Think of a swing state or a state that is red but not this red. We can’t get complacent because the angry mobs at the townhalls WILL vote. One of the papers (WaPo I think) had an article where they talked to people in Kansas. Some of the people are frustrated with the party there. Brownback has a low approval rating around 25%, and apparently people didn’t like him vetoing the Medicaid expansion. That ties in to my point that Trump will have to replace and ensure that people that can’t get coverage are insured. That could be an opening the Dems use for sure in 2018 and 2020.
Yay!!!!
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