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]]>We are watching a fascinating, bold and audacious effort by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. to steal the U.S. Senate seat in Kansas.
While Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., is retiring after four terms, this would normally be a safe Republican seat. In fact, no Democrat has won a U.S. Senate seat from Kansas since 1932. This 82-year record of Republican senators (since the election of Sen. Clyde Reed in 1938) is the longest of any state in the country.
The Democrats are running State Senator Barbara Bollier, a Republican-turned-Democrat. She would normally be expected to run a good race, get 45 percent or less, and stay in Kansas.
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However, Schumer and the Washington Democrats have come up with a clever scheme to change history, break the Republicans’ biggest winning streak and steal the Kansas seat to help take over a majority in the US Senate.
The general problem for Republicans is a crowded primary Tuesday. The specific problem for Republicans is Kris Kobach, the former secretary of state in Kansas. He is seen as being too far to the right. In fact, when he ran for governor in 2018, he only received 43 percent of the vote – a poor showing for a Republican in this state.
As Rollcall put it on June 8: “Kobach is viewed as a headache for Republicans because his 43 percent showing against Kelly was the worst by a statewide GOP candidate in at least a decade…. The Democrats’ best and maybe only, bet continues to be against Kobach.”
Kobach is seen as so unacceptable that one poll shows 29 percent of GOP primary voters would support Bollier instead.
Ironically, even though Kobach is arguably the most conservative candidate in the race, his unpopularity has made him the Schumer candidate.
The Democrats understand that if they can help Kobach win the Republican primary, they will dramatically increase their chances of winning a Kansas U.S. Senate seat for the first time since 1932. So, that is exactly what they are doing.
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The Democrats have invented Sunflower State PAC, which has already spent $2.5 million propping up Kobach and attacking Congressman Roger Marshall, R-Kan. The PAC will spend another $2.2 million against Marshall before the primary Tuesday.
As James Arkin reported in Politico on July 15: “Sunflower State has apparent ties to Democrats. The media buyer used to place the ad, Old Town Media, was also used to place more than $11 million in ads from Unite the Country, the pro-Joe Biden super PAC that spent heavily in the Democratic presidential primary. Sunflower State also holds its account at Amalgamated Bank, which is used by Senate Majority PAC, a top Democratic outside group, among other prominent Democratic groups, including Biden’s campaign, according to the filing with the Federal Election Commission.”
So, since it is almost impossible to imagine the Republicans keeping a majority in the U.S. Senate if they lose Kansas, Schumer’s maneuver to meddle in the Republican primary there is a mortal threat to Mitch McConnell’s position as Senate majority leader. In effect, a vote for Kobach on Tuesday is a vote for Chuck Schumer to become the Senate majority leader in January.
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Congressman Marshall represents Kansas’ First Congressional District. His district produced both Sens. Bob Dole (who just turned 97), Roberts and Jerry Moran. Marshall is a solid conservative Republican who would normally be a shoo-in for the primary and would easily win the general election.
Marshall is a medical doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. He has effectively represented the agricultural interests of his overwhelmingly rural district for his entire time in Congress. He is a reliable Republican vote in the US House – and in this Congress, he has scored 98 percent on the Heritage Action Committee voter rating.
Govtrack ranked him the 15th most conservative member of the House. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce gave him a 90 percent lifetime score for his votes. In other words: Congressman Marshall is squarely Republican with a conservative and pro-business voting record.
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And, of course, a Sen. Marshall would help keep McConnell as the senate majority leader and be a big step toward keeping Schumer in the minority.
There is a lot at stake in the Tuesday primary in Kansas. In fact, it may well be the real senatorial election for 2020 in that state.
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]]>A newly resurfaced November 2015 memo from a senior Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) official calls the Black Lives Matter Movement “radical,” and offers Democratic House candidates suggestions for how to handle activists who attempt to approach their campaigns.
The secretive document, first leaked in 2016 by the hacker “Guccifer 2.0,” was characterized as insensitive and condescending at the time. Now, as Democrats are confronted with a newly resurgent Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement that has led politicians to kneel in kente cloths and changed free speech norms across the country, the memo threatens to undermine their stated commitment to reform following the in-custody death of George Floyd.
“This document should not be emailed or handed to anyone outside of the building,” the memo from Troy Perry, a top DCCC official, begins. “Please only give campaign staff these best practices in meetings or over the phone.”
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Perry, who is black, goes on to characterize Black Lives Matter as a “radical movement to end ‘anti-black racism.'”
He notes that Black Lives Matter activists don’t want their movement “co-opted by the Democratic Party.”
Demonstrators hold placards during a Black Lives Matter rally in Parliament Square in London, Saturday, June 6, 2020, as people protest against the killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, USA. Floyd, a black man, died after he was restrained by Minneapolis police while in custody on May 25 in Minnesota. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
Black Lives Matter advocates for a “collective ownership” economic model, reparations and the “immediate release” of everyone convicted of a drug offense, in addition to defunding police forces and other left-wing agenda items.
If approached by Black Lives Matter activists, Perry advises in the memo that House candidates offer to meet with them — but that they shouldn’t “offer support for concrete policy positions.”
Under no circumstances, Perry says, should Democrats “say ‘all lives matter’ nor mention ‘black-on-black crime.'”
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“These are all viewed as red herring attacks,” the document reads. “This response will garner additional media scrutiny and only anger BLM activists. This is the worst response.”
Perry, now a political consultant, and the DCCC did not respond to Fox News’ request for comment Thursday.
Reaction to the memo was scathing. Deray Mckesson, a prominent Black Lives Matter spokesperson, wrote in 2016: “The DNCC memo re: the movement highlights a serious lack of attention to issues related to black people. Has their view changed since 2015?”
Some concrete reforms, contrary to the 2015 memo, are apparently on the way. After kneeling for several minutes, top Democrats on Monday introduced a sweeping criminal justice reform bill, which includes a limitation on police officers’ qualified immunity to certain forms of lawsuits for misconduct on the job.
Critics say qualified immunity, a judge-made doctrine, is necessary to protect police from complaints that would punish officers for reasonably executing their duties in stressful situations, or complaints intended to harass officers. Democrats charge, however, that qualified immunity is a shield for bad behavior and has enabled a culture of misconduct.
The “Justice in Policing Act of 2020” would also establish a registry of police misconduct, and would specifically allow officers to be punished for violating constitutional rights “knowingly or with reckless disregard.” The federal standard currently permits officers to be prosecuted only for “willfully” violating constitutional rights — a significantly higher standard of proof.
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Further, the federal standard for use of force would change from “reasonableness” to situations where it is “necessary to prevent death or serious bodily injury.”
The White House has also announced its own planned police reforms in the past week.
The changes come amid a tense national conversation on race and police. In extraordinary cases just this week, an LA Galaxy soccer player was fired because of his wife’s posts on Black Lives Matter; a Cornell Law School faculty member was threatened with termination for criticizing the group; and a UCLA lecturer was suspended for pointedly refusing to cancel his exam for black students.
Meanwhile, University of Michigan professor Justin Wolfers and dozens of other academics are leading a massive effort to have a senior faculty member at the University of Chicago removed from his position at the world’s preeminent economics journal — all because he criticized Black Lives Matter’s push to defund police departments.
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