Kansas and Missouri voters cast ballots Tuesday in primary elections that determined who represents both parties in November. There were also a series of questions for Missouri voters issued final decisions on Tuesday. Here's a recap from Tuesday's vote. [ KANSAS PRIMARY RESULTS ] [ MISSOURI PRIMARY RESULTS ][ COMPLETE PRIMARY RESULTS ]11:05 p.m. Voters make Missouri the nation's 38th state to approve Medicaid expansion for more low-income adults, the Associated Press reported. READ MORE.10:33 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Tracey Mann wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Kansas' 1st congressional district.10:30 p.m. -- After not getting a pre-election endorsement, Rep. Roger Marshall received a call from President Donald Trump Tuesday night after winning the GOP nomination for the open Senate seat in Kansas. 9:52 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Amanda Adkins wins the Republican nomination for U.S. House in Kansas' 3rd congressional district. Adkins will face Democrat incumbent Sharice Davids in November.9:50 p.m. -- Freshman Kansas Rep. Steve Watkins lost his Republican primary Tuesday after being charged with felony election fraud and other crimes.State Treasurer Jake LaTurner defeated Watkins after arguing that the criminal charges against Watkins made an already vulnerable incumbent an even worse bet with Democrats sensing an opportunity to pick up the 2nd District seat in eastern Kansas despite its Republican leanings. Watkins had largely toed the conservative line and vocally supported President Donald Trump in Congress.The charges against Watkins were filed in state district court his home of Shawnee County just three weeks before the election and arose from his listing a postal box at a UPS Inc. store as his residence on a state voter registration form.Watkins and LaTurner battled for the GOP nomination with Dennis Taylor, a Topeka lawyer and businessman with a long career in state and local government that has included heading several state agencies. Topeka Mayor Michelle De La Isla won the Democratic nomination easily over James Windholz, a University of Kansas graduate student and instructor.LaTurner is a former state senator who has served as state treasurer since 2017. De La Isla is the first Latina and single mother to serve as Topeka mayor, winning the office in 2017 after serving on the City Council.Watkins is accused of voting illegally in a Topeka City Council race in November 2019 and of trying to mislead a sheriff’s detective who was investigating whether he broke state election laws by listing the UPS postal box as his residence last yerar for voter registration purposes. Watkins later corrected his residential address - twice - so that it’s now an apartment that lies outside the City Council district that includes the UPS store.Watkins has said he made a mistake and corrected it. He’s called the criminal charges “bogus” and has accused the local district attorney, Mike Kagay, of colluding with LaTurner because both share a direct mail services firm. He acknowledged during a Kansas City Star interview last week that he voted in the wrong City Council district but said he did not intend to break the law. He suggested the voter registration resulted from “collegial” work with his staff but denied an allegation that he tried to mislead the detective by blaming the voter registration problem on his staff.Democrats and some Republicans already saw Watkins as vulnerable this year because he won the November 2018 election by less than a percentage point after emerging from a crowded GOP primary with less than 27% of the vote. He is a former Army officer and military contractor.9:35 p.m. -- Voters have settled the two-way race for Jackson County sheriff, electing incumbent Darryl Forte over former Sheriff Mike Sharp. There was no Republican candidate.9:31 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Jake LaTurner wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Kansas' 2nd congressional district. At 9:31 p.m., La Turner was leading with 49% of the vote over Steve Watkins.9:20 p.m. -- Kansas Republicans on Tuesday nominated Rep. Roger Marshall for the Senate instead of polarizing conservative Kris Kobach, heeding the party establishment’s advice for keeping a normally safe seat out of play in what could be a difficult year for the GOP.Marshall prevailed in a crowded GOP primary field with the backing of major farm, business and anti-abortion groups but without an endorsement from President Donald Trump sought by Senate Majority Mitch McConnell and others for the two-term congressman for western and central Kansas. Marshall overcame Kobach’s reputation as both an informal adviser to Trump and reputation as a conservative firebrand.Many Republicans’ fears about Kobach fueled ad campaigns that cost at least $15 million, with most of the spending by political action committees. Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state, is nationally known for advocating restrictive immigration policies and alienated independent and moderate GOP voters in losing the Kansas governor’s race in 2018.The race for retiring four-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts’ seat had national implications even though the GOP hasn’t lost a Senate contest in Kansas since 1932. Republicans are trying to keep their 53-47 Senate majority with competitive races in other states, including Arizona, Colorado and Maine.Even with Marshall as the nominee, the GOP faces a potentially competitive Senate race. The Democratic nominee, state Sen. Barbara Bollier has raised more than $8 million for her campaign, a big sum in a low-cost media state like Kansas, with donations flooding in from outside the state. Bollier is a retired Kansas City-area anethesiologist and former moderate Republican who garnered national headlines by switching parties at the end of 2018.Marshall raised about $2.9 million and Kobach, a little more than $1 million. Bob Hamilton, the founder of a Kansas City-area plumbing company largely self-funded a campaign heavy on television ads with $3.5 million in personal loans. Those figures were all dwarfed by PAC spending in the primary, which totaled more than $9 million.Marshall, Kobach and Hamilton sat atop an 11-person field, the largest one for the GOP since the state began holding Senate primaries more than 100 years ago. Kansas has no runoff elections, so if the anti-Kobach vote had splintered enough, he might have won with only his solid base on the right.Marshall and his allies made Kobach’s loss in the governor’s race a key issue and argued that he was the best alternative. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s first choice was U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a former Wichita-area congressman, but while Pompeo made multiple visits to Kansas suggesting interest, he definitely declared himself out in January. Kobach argued that the issues he’s often emphasized - particularly immigration - would play better in a fall Senate campaign and said he’d benefit from a flood of pro-Trump voters going to the polls in November after skipping voting in the 2018 mid-terms.Roberts declared his support for Marshall after the congressman had picked up endorsements from the U.S Chamber of Commerce, the Kansas Farm Bureau, the National Right to Life Committee and Kansans for Life, the state’s most influential anti-abortion group. Marshall also had the backing of 97-year-old political icon Bob Dole, the former U.S. Senate majority leader and 1996 GOP presidential nominee.9:11 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Roger Marshall wins Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Kansas primary election. At 9:10 p.m., Marshall held an 11% lead over Kris Kobach.8:45 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Emanuel Cleaver wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Missouri's 5th congressional district. At 8:45 p.m., Cleaver leads with 87% of the vote.8:40 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Sam Graves wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Missouri's 6th congressional district. At 8:45 p.m., Graves leads with 80% of the vote.8:25 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Michelle De La Isla wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Kansas' 2nd congressional district. At 8:25 p.m., De La Isla leads with 77% of the vote.8:25 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Blaine Luetkemeyer wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Missouri's 3rd congressional district. At 8:25 p.m., Luetkemeyer leads in the polls with 77% of the vote.8:13 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Mike Parson wins the Republican nomination for governor in Missouri primary election. At 8:13 p.m., Parson leads in the polls with 78% of the vote.8:10 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Barbara Bollier wins the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Kansas primary election. At 8:10 p.m., Bollier leads in the polls with 92% of the vote.7:40 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Nicole Galloway wins Democratic nomination for governor in Missouri primary election. At 7:40 p.m., Galloway leads in the polls with 89% of the vote.7 p.m. -- Polls have closed in Kansas and Missouri. Here is the link to follow the results as they come in for the key races on both sides of the state line.6:47 p.m. -- Matt Evans is reporting from Kris Kobach’s watch party in Leavenworth, Kansas.Establishment Republicans sought Tuesday to thwart polarizing conservative Kobach's bid for Kansas' open Senate seat, a task complicated by President Donald Trump's refusal to endorse their favored candidate in the primary.Republicans haven’t lost a Senate contest in Kansas since 1932. But party leaders in Washington and many GOP activists in Kansas fear that the normally safe seat held by retiring four-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts will be in play if the party nominates Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state who is nationally known for advocating restrictive immigration policies.6:10 p.m. -- KMBC 9 News crews are spread out across both Missouri and Kansas. Emily Holwick covering the Kansas Senate race and will be reporting from Rep. Roger Marshall’s watch party.5:30 p.m. The Kansas Secretary of State's office said Tuesday that as of 8 a.m. 315,037 advance ballots had been mailed, 215,367 advance ballots had been returned. Officials said , 50,185 advance ballots were cast in person. Compared to 2016, 54,302 were sent; 36,532 were returned; 45,663 advance ballots were cast in person. Compared to 2018 - 51,455 sent; 30,169 returned; 59,280 in person.3:43 p.m. -- KMBC 9 News crews are starting to arrive at their coverage locations on both sides of the state line. Bianca Beltrán is in Topeka covering the 2nd District race in eastern Kansas.12:30 p.m.-- On Monday -- one day before polls officially open for the Kansas Primary Election in Johnson County – nearly 100,000 voters already had cast their ballots. According to Johnson County Election Commissioner Connie Schmidt, her office has received 80,000 mail-in ballots and 15,000 people have taken advantage of advance voting. READ MORE12:45 p.m.-- The Kansas Secretary of State’s office tweeted out a reminder to Kansas voters to not forget a photo ID when heading to the polls on Tuesday.12:30 p.m. -- Freshman Rep. Steve Watkins posted on social media after he cast his ballot on Tuesday.12:05 p.m. -- Freshman Rep. Steve Watkins, who is facing felony illegal voting charges, fought Tuesday to fend off a challenge in Kansas' Republican primary.Watkins was trying to survive the challenge from State Treasurer Jake LaTurner after having largely toed the conservative line and vocally supporting President Donald Trump while representing the 2nd District in eastern Kansas. LaTurner argued that the criminal charges against Watkins made an already vulnerable incumbent an even worse bet with Democrats sensing an opportunity to pick up the seat despite the district's Republican leanings.The charges against Watkins were filed in state district court in his home of Shawnee County and arise from his listing a postal box at a UPS Inc. store as his residence on a state voter registration form.Watkins and LaTurner were vying for the GOP nomination with Dennis Taylor, a Topeka lawyer and businessman with a long career in state and local government that has included heading several state agencies. Topeka Mayor Michelle De La Isla was favored to win the Democratic nomination against James Windholz, a University of Kansas graduate student and instructor.Watkins is accused of voting illegally in a Topeka City Council race in November 2019 and of trying to mislead a sheriff’s detective who was investigating whether he broke state election laws by listing the UPS postal box as his residence for voter registration purposes last year. Watkins later corrected his residential address - twice - so that it’s now an apartment that lies outside the City Council district that includes the UPS store.The congressman has said he made a mistake and corrected it. He has called the criminal charges “bogus” and has accused the local district attorney, Mike Kagay, of colluding with LaTurner because both share a direct mail services firm. He acknowledged during a Kansas City Star interview last week that he voted in the wrong City Council district but said he did not intend to break the law. He suggested the voter registration resulted from “collegial” work with his staff but denied an allegation that he tried to mislead the detective by blaming the voter registration problem on his staff.Kris Miller, a 47-year-old financial planner based in Topeka, said he voted for Watkins because he liked how the congressman's voting record matched Trump's policies. He said he didn't think the “intent was there” when Watkins listed the postal box as his address.“As a businessperson, I know that stuff can get confusing,” Miller said.Tim Smith, a 58-year-old retired business owner who voted in Topeka, declined to say whom he voted for but said he had concerns about Watkins and LaTurner. He said he found the charges against Watkins to be “really disturbing" and that he fears that if Watkins is elected but gets convicted of something, he would be forced to leave Congress. But he said he's not excited about LaTurner either because he thinks LaTurner has used his office to “do a lot of advertising for himself." Democrats and some Republicans already saw Watkins as vulnerable this year because he won the November 2018 election by less than a percentage point after emerging from a crowded GOP primary with less than 27% of the vote. He is a former Army officer and military contractor. LaTurner is a former state senator who has served as state treasurer since 2017. De La Isla is the first Latina and single mother to serve as Topeka mayor, winning the office in 2017 after serving on the City Council.11:45 a.m.-- Rep. Roger Marshall posted a video on social after he cast his vote on Tuesday.10 a.m. -- The Jackson County prosecutor's office said Monday that it will monitor the polls for any voting irregularities in Tuesday's Missouri primary.Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said her office will monitor for potential voter fraud and any abuse of voters' rights. This could include any threat or attempt to prevent someone from voting, giving false information to prevent them from going to the polls or bribing a voter to support a specific candidate or issue. READ MORE9 a.m. -- The Missouri Secretary State’s office tweeted Tuesday a graphic with a phone number if you have any questions about Election Day. The phone number for questions is 1-800-669-8683.7 a.m. -- Establishment Republicans sought Tuesday to thwart polarizing conservative Kris Kobach's bid for Kansas' open Senate seat, a task complicated by President Donald Trump's refusal to endorse their favored candidate in the primary.Republicans haven’t lost a Senate contest in Kansas since 1932. But party leaders in Washington and many GOP activists in Kansas fear that the normally safe seat held by retiring four-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts will be in play if the party nominates Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state who is nationally known for advocating restrictive immigration policies.Trump didn’t intervene to help Rep. Roger Marshall in a crowded field, despite prodding from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others. The two-term congressman for western and central Kansas faced blistering attacks in the final weeks of the campaign, including from a political action committee with Democratic ties. The GOP already faces a potentially tough year in trying to retain its 53-47 Senate majority with competitive races in other states, including Arizona, Colorado and Maine. Republicans are hoping to avoid a repeat of 2018 when Kobach lost the state's gubernatorial race to Democrat Laura Kelly after alienating independent and moderate GOP voters.The state saw a heavy reliance on mail-in ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic, and at least 234,000 voters cast ballots in advance -- more than double the number from the 2018 and 2016 primaries. Counties could accept ballots until Friday so long as they were postmarked Tuesday, creating uncertainty that the GOP Senate primary would be decided before then. Many Republicans were nervous about the Senate race because the presumed Democratic nominee, state Sen. Barbara Bollier, has raised more than $8.2 million for her campaign, seeing a flood of contributions from outside Kansas. Bollier is a retired Kansas City-area anesthesiologist and former moderate Republican who switched parties in 2018.Marshall raised about $2.9 million and Kobach a little more than $1 million. Bob Hamilton, the founder of a Kansas City-area plumbing company largely self-funded a campaign heavy on television ads with $3.5 million in personal loans. Those figures were all dwarfed by PAC spending in the primary, which totaled about $11 million. Marshall, Kobach and Hamilton sat atop an 11-person field, the largest one for the GOP since the state began holding Senate primaries more than 100 years ago. Kansas has no runoff elections, so if Kobach maintains his solid base on the right, he could emerge if the rest of the vote splinters.Marshall and his allies made Kobach's loss in the governor's race a key issue and argued that he was the best alternative. McConnell's first choice was U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a former Wichita-area congressman, but while Pompeo made multiple visits to Kansas suggesting interest, he declared himself out in January. Kobach argued that the issues he's often emphasized - particularly immigration - would play better in a fall Senate campaign and said he'd benefit from a flood of pro-Trump voters going to the polls in November after skipping voting in the 2018 midterms. He also played his status an an informal adviser to Trump and the White House and the first prominent Kansas official to endorse Trump's presidential bid in 2016.Roberts declared his support for Marshall after the congressman had picked up endorsements from the U.S Chamber of Commerce, the Kansas Farm Bureau, the National Right to Life Committee and Kansans for Life, the state's most influential anti-abortion group. He also had the backing of 97-year-old political icon Bob Dole, the former U.S. Senate majority leader and 1996 GOP presidential nominee.6 a.m. -- Missouri voters on Tuesday will decide whether to expand Medicaid health care coverage to thousands more low-income adults after years of resistance from Republican lawmakers. The vote on health care, as well as primaries for statewide offices and congressional seats, comes as coronavirus cases are increasing in the state, which could impact voter turnout.Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature repeatedly rejected Medicaid expansion proposals over the past decade, which prompted supporters to turn to the initiative process. Idaho, Maine, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Utah have all expanded Medicaid through ballot questions following inaction by state lawmakers, according to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. Oklahoma became the 37th state to expand eligibility for Medicaid under the federal law last month.Missouri’s Medicaid program currently does not cover most adults without children, and its income eligibility threshold for parents is one of the lowest in the nation at about one-fifth of the poverty level.The ballot proposal would expand eligibility under the terms of the 2010 federal health care law signed by President Barack Obama. That law provides a higher-than-usual federal funding share for states that expand Medicaid coverage to adults earning up to 138% of the federal poverty level, about $17,600 for an individual or $30,000 for a family of three.Democratic Auditor Nicole Galloway's office estimated that expanding Medicaid could cost the state at least $200 million or save as much as $1 billion annually by 2026. Republican opponents cite the potential costs as reason to oppose the ballot initiative. "Amendment 2 will be a knockout blow to the state budget as more services will be cut or eliminated to pay for the health care of able-bodied adults,” state House Budget Chairman Cody Smith said. By proposing a constitutional amendment instead of a new law, Missouri supporters have ensured that lawmakers will be unable to change it without going back to voters.Backers include the Missouri Hospital Association and groups with particular sway over Republicans such as the Missouri Catholic Conference and Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry.Republican Gov. Mike Parson, who opposes Medicaid expansion and is up for election this year, in May moved the vote on the proposal up from the Nov. 3 general election to Tuesday's primary. Galloway is trying to unseat Parson. Her campaign has said Parson switched the day of the vote on Medicaid because fewer people typically vote in August compared to November, possibly giving opponents a better chance of defeating the measure. Voter turnout during the 2016 presidential general election in Missouri was almost three times higher than turnout for that year's August primary. Even in 2018, a record year for turnout during a primary, roughly 1 million more voters turned up at the polls in November compared to August. Parson has said his decision was not about politics.Voters on Tuesday also will pick the Republican and Democratic candidates for Congress, the Missouri governor's seat and other statewide offices, and state legislative seats. Parson and Galloway have primary opponents, but both are expected to be nominated by their respective political parties. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, whose job performance has been lauded by some civil rights activists and criticized by President Donald Trump and other leading Republicans, faces a challenge from former homicide prosecutor Mary Pat Carl.SAMPLE BALLOTS IN KANSASDouglas County Clerk's Office (Aug. 4 sample ballots/Voter registration search)Johnson County Election Office (Find your sample ballot)Leavenworth County Election Information (Aug. 4 sample ballots)Linn County Clerk and Election Office (Aug. 4 sample ballots)Miami County Election Information (Find your sample ballot)Wyandotte County Election Office (Find your sample ballot)SAMPLE BALLOTS IN MISSOURIBates County Clerk’s Office (Aug. 4 sample ballot)Cass County Clerk’s Office(Aug. 4 sample ballot)Clinton County Election Information (Aug. 4 sample ballot)Henry County Clerk’s Office and Aug. 4 sample ballotsJackson County Election Board (Aug. 4 sample ballots)Johnson County (Missouri) Election Information (Find your sample ballot)KCMO Election Board (Aug. 4 sample ballots)Lafayette County Clerk’s Office(Find your sample ballot)Platte County Board of Elections (Find your sample ballot)Ray County Clerk’s Office (Find your sample ballot)The Associated Press contributed to this story.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas and Missouri voters cast ballots Tuesday in primary elections that determined who represents both parties in November. There were also a series of questions for Missouri voters issued final decisions on Tuesday. Here's a recap from Tuesday's vote.
[ KANSAS PRIMARY RESULTS ] [ MISSOURI PRIMARY RESULTS ]
[ COMPLETE PRIMARY RESULTS ]
11:05 p.m. Voters make Missouri the nation's 38th state to approve Medicaid expansion for more low-income adults, the Associated Press reported. READ MORE.
10:33 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Tracey Mann wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Kansas' 1st congressional district.
10:30 p.m. -- After not getting a pre-election endorsement, Rep. Roger Marshall received a call from President Donald Trump Tuesday night after winning the GOP nomination for the open Senate seat in Kansas.
9:52 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Amanda Adkins wins the Republican nomination for U.S. House in Kansas' 3rd congressional district. Adkins will face Democrat incumbent Sharice Davids in November.
9:50 p.m. -- Freshman Kansas Rep. Steve Watkins lost his Republican primary Tuesday after being charged with felony election fraud and other crimes.
State Treasurer Jake LaTurner defeated Watkins after arguing that the criminal charges against Watkins made an already vulnerable incumbent an even worse bet with Democrats sensing an opportunity to pick up the 2nd District seat in eastern Kansas despite its Republican leanings. Watkins had largely toed the conservative line and vocally supported President Donald Trump in Congress.
The charges against Watkins were filed in state district court his home of Shawnee County just three weeks before the election and arose from his listing a postal box at a UPS Inc. store as his residence on a state voter registration form.
Watkins and LaTurner battled for the GOP nomination with Dennis Taylor, a Topeka lawyer and businessman with a long career in state and local government that has included heading several state agencies. Topeka Mayor Michelle De La Isla won the Democratic nomination easily over James Windholz, a University of Kansas graduate student and instructor.
LaTurner is a former state senator who has served as state treasurer since 2017. De La Isla is the first Latina and single mother to serve as Topeka mayor, winning the office in 2017 after serving on the City Council.
Watkins is accused of voting illegally in a Topeka City Council race in November 2019 and of trying to mislead a sheriff’s detective who was investigating whether he broke state election laws by listing the UPS postal box as his residence last yerar for voter registration purposes.
Watkins later corrected his residential address - twice - so that it’s now an apartment that lies outside the City Council district that includes the UPS store.
Watkins has said he made a mistake and corrected it. He’s called the criminal charges “bogus” and has accused the local district attorney, Mike Kagay, of colluding with LaTurner because both share a direct mail services firm. He acknowledged during a Kansas City Star interview last week that he voted in the wrong City Council district but said he did not intend to break the law. He suggested the voter registration resulted from “collegial” work with his staff but denied an allegation that he tried to mislead the detective by blaming the voter registration problem on his staff.
Democrats and some Republicans already saw Watkins as vulnerable this year because he won the November 2018 election by less than a percentage point after emerging from a crowded GOP primary with less than 27% of the vote. He is a former Army officer and military contractor.
9:35 p.m. -- Voters have settled the two-way race for Jackson County sheriff, electing incumbent Darryl Forte over former Sheriff Mike Sharp. There was no Republican candidate.
9:31 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Jake LaTurner wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Kansas' 2nd congressional district. At 9:31 p.m., La Turner was leading with 49% of the vote over Steve Watkins.
9:20 p.m. -- Kansas Republicans on Tuesday nominated Rep. Roger Marshall for the Senate instead of polarizing conservative Kris Kobach, heeding the party establishment’s advice for keeping a normally safe seat out of play in what could be a difficult year for the GOP.
Marshall prevailed in a crowded GOP primary field with the backing of major farm, business and anti-abortion groups but without an endorsement from President Donald Trump sought by Senate Majority Mitch McConnell and others for the two-term congressman for western and central Kansas. Marshall overcame Kobach’s reputation as both an informal adviser to Trump and reputation as a conservative firebrand.
Many Republicans’ fears about Kobach fueled ad campaigns that cost at least $15 million, with most of the spending by political action committees. Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state, is nationally known for advocating restrictive immigration policies and alienated independent and moderate GOP voters in losing the Kansas governor’s race in 2018.
The race for retiring four-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts’ seat had national implications even though the GOP hasn’t lost a Senate contest in Kansas since 1932. Republicans are trying to keep their 53-47 Senate majority with competitive races in other states, including Arizona, Colorado and Maine.
Even with Marshall as the nominee, the GOP faces a potentially competitive Senate race. The Democratic nominee, state Sen. Barbara Bollier has raised more than $8 million for her campaign, a big sum in a low-cost media state like Kansas, with donations flooding in from outside the state. Bollier is a retired Kansas City-area anethesiologist and former moderate Republican who garnered national headlines by switching parties at the end of 2018.
Marshall raised about $2.9 million and Kobach, a little more than $1 million. Bob Hamilton, the founder of a Kansas City-area plumbing company largely self-funded a campaign heavy on television ads with $3.5 million in personal loans. Those figures were all dwarfed by PAC spending in the primary, which totaled more than $9 million.
Marshall, Kobach and Hamilton sat atop an 11-person field, the largest one for the GOP since the state began holding Senate primaries more than 100 years ago. Kansas has no runoff elections, so if the anti-Kobach vote had splintered enough, he might have won with only his solid base on the right.
Marshall and his allies made Kobach’s loss in the governor’s race a key issue and argued that he was the best alternative. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s first choice was U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a former Wichita-area congressman, but while Pompeo made multiple visits to Kansas suggesting interest, he definitely declared himself out in January.
Kobach argued that the issues he’s often emphasized - particularly immigration - would play better in a fall Senate campaign and said he’d benefit from a flood of pro-Trump voters going to the polls in November after skipping voting in the 2018 mid-terms.
Roberts declared his support for Marshall after the congressman had picked up endorsements from the U.S Chamber of Commerce, the Kansas Farm Bureau, the National Right to Life Committee and Kansans for Life, the state’s most influential anti-abortion group. Marshall also had the backing of 97-year-old political icon Bob Dole, the former U.S. Senate majority leader and 1996 GOP presidential nominee.
9:11 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Roger Marshall wins Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Kansas primary election. At 9:10 p.m., Marshall held an 11% lead over Kris Kobach.
8:45 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Emanuel Cleaver wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Missouri's 5th congressional district. At 8:45 p.m., Cleaver leads with 87% of the vote.
8:40 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Sam Graves wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Missouri's 6th congressional district. At 8:45 p.m., Graves leads with 80% of the vote.
8:25 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Michelle De La Isla wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Kansas' 2nd congressional district. At 8:25 p.m., De La Isla leads with 77% of the vote.
8:25 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Blaine Luetkemeyer wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Missouri's 3rd congressional district. At 8:25 p.m., Luetkemeyer leads in the polls with 77% of the vote.
8:13 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Mike Parson wins the Republican nomination for governor in Missouri primary election. At 8:13 p.m., Parson leads in the polls with 78% of the vote.
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8:10 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Barbara Bollier wins the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Kansas primary election. At 8:10 p.m., Bollier leads in the polls with 92% of the vote.
7:40 p.m. -- The Associated Press says Nicole Galloway wins Democratic nomination for governor in Missouri primary election. At 7:40 p.m., Galloway leads in the polls with 89% of the vote.
7 p.m. -- Polls have closed in Kansas and Missouri. Here is the link to follow the results as they come in for the key races on both sides of the state line.
6:47 p.m. -- Matt Evans is reporting from Kris Kobach’s watch party in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Establishment Republicans sought Tuesday to thwart polarizing conservative Kobach's bid for Kansas' open Senate seat, a task complicated by President Donald Trump's refusal to endorse their favored candidate in the primary.
Republicans haven’t lost a Senate contest in Kansas since 1932. But party leaders in Washington and many GOP activists in Kansas fear that the normally safe seat held by retiring four-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts will be in play if the party nominates Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state who is nationally known for advocating restrictive immigration policies.
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6:10 p.m. -- KMBC 9 News crews are spread out across both Missouri and Kansas. Emily Holwick covering the Kansas Senate race and will be reporting from Rep. Roger Marshall’s watch party.
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5:30 p.m. The Kansas Secretary of State's office said Tuesday that as of 8 a.m. 315,037 advance ballots had been mailed, 215,367 advance ballots had been returned. Officials said , 50,185 advance ballots were cast in person. Compared to 2016, 54,302 were sent; 36,532 were returned; 45,663 advance ballots were cast in person. Compared to 2018 - 51,455 sent; 30,169 returned; 59,280 in person.
3:43 p.m. -- KMBC 9 News crews are starting to arrive at their coverage locations on both sides of the state line. Bianca Beltrán is in Topeka covering the 2nd District race in eastern Kansas.
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12:30 p.m.-- On Monday -- one day before polls officially open for the Kansas Primary Election in Johnson County – nearly 100,000 voters already had cast their ballots. According to Johnson County Election Commissioner Connie Schmidt, her office has received 80,000 mail-in ballots and 15,000 people have taken advantage of advance voting. READ MORE
12:45 p.m.-- The Kansas Secretary of State’s office tweeted out a reminder to Kansas voters to not forget a photo ID when heading to the polls on Tuesday.
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12:30 p.m. -- Freshman Rep. Steve Watkins posted on social media after he cast his ballot on Tuesday.
12:05 p.m. -- Freshman Rep. Steve Watkins, who is facing felony illegal voting charges, fought Tuesday to fend off a challenge in Kansas' Republican primary.
Watkins was trying to survive the challenge from State Treasurer Jake LaTurner after having largely toed the conservative line and vocally supporting President Donald Trump while representing the 2nd District in eastern Kansas. LaTurner argued that the criminal charges against Watkins made an already vulnerable incumbent an even worse bet with Democrats sensing an opportunity to pick up the seat despite the district's Republican leanings.
The charges against Watkins were filed in state district court in his home of Shawnee County and arise from his listing a postal box at a UPS Inc. store as his residence on a state voter registration form.
Watkins and LaTurner were vying for the GOP nomination with Dennis Taylor, a Topeka lawyer and businessman with a long career in state and local government that has included heading several state agencies. Topeka Mayor Michelle De La Isla was favored to win the Democratic nomination against James Windholz, a University of Kansas graduate student and instructor.
Watkins is accused of voting illegally in a Topeka City Council race in November 2019 and of trying to mislead a sheriff’s detective who was investigating whether he broke state election laws by listing the UPS postal box as his residence for voter registration purposes last year. Watkins later corrected his residential address - twice - so that it’s now an apartment that lies outside the City Council district that includes the UPS store.
The congressman has said he made a mistake and corrected it. He has called the criminal charges “bogus” and has accused the local district attorney, Mike Kagay, of colluding with LaTurner because both share a direct mail services firm. He acknowledged during a Kansas City Star interview last week that he voted in the wrong City Council district but said he did not intend to break the law. He suggested the voter registration resulted from “collegial” work with his staff but denied an allegation that he tried to mislead the detective by blaming the voter registration problem on his staff.
Kris Miller, a 47-year-old financial planner based in Topeka, said he voted for Watkins because he liked how the congressman's voting record matched Trump's policies. He said he didn't think the “intent was there” when Watkins listed the postal box as his address.
“As a businessperson, I know that stuff can get confusing,” Miller said.
Tim Smith, a 58-year-old retired business owner who voted in Topeka, declined to say whom he voted for but said he had concerns about Watkins and LaTurner. He said he found the charges against Watkins to be “really disturbing" and that he fears that if Watkins is elected but gets convicted of something, he would be forced to leave Congress. But he said he's not excited about LaTurner either because he thinks LaTurner has used his office to “do a lot of advertising for himself."
Democrats and some Republicans already saw Watkins as vulnerable this year because he won the November 2018 election by less than a percentage point after emerging from a crowded GOP primary with less than 27% of the vote. He is a former Army officer and military contractor.
LaTurner is a former state senator who has served as state treasurer since 2017. De La Isla is the first Latina and single mother to serve as Topeka mayor, winning the office in 2017 after serving on the City Council.
11:45 a.m.-- Rep. Roger Marshall posted a video on social after he cast his vote on Tuesday.
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10 a.m. -- The Jackson County prosecutor's office said Monday that it will monitor the polls for any voting irregularities in Tuesday's Missouri primary.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said her office will monitor for potential voter fraud and any abuse of voters' rights. This could include any threat or attempt to prevent someone from voting, giving false information to prevent them from going to the polls or bribing a voter to support a specific candidate or issue. READ MORE
9 a.m. -- The Missouri Secretary State’s office tweeted Tuesday a graphic with a phone number if you have any questions about Election Day. The phone number for questions is 1-800-669-8683.
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7 a.m. -- Establishment Republicans sought Tuesday to thwart polarizing conservative Kris Kobach's bid for Kansas' open Senate seat, a task complicated by President Donald Trump's refusal to endorse their favored candidate in the primary.
Republicans haven’t lost a Senate contest in Kansas since 1932. But party leaders in Washington and many GOP activists in Kansas fear that the normally safe seat held by retiring four-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts will be in play if the party nominates Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state who is nationally known for advocating restrictive immigration policies.
Trump didn’t intervene to help Rep. Roger Marshall in a crowded field, despite prodding from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others. The two-term congressman for western and central Kansas faced blistering attacks in the final weeks of the campaign, including from a political action committee with Democratic ties.
The GOP already faces a potentially tough year in trying to retain its 53-47 Senate majority with competitive races in other states, including Arizona, Colorado and Maine. Republicans are hoping to avoid a repeat of 2018 when Kobach lost the state's gubernatorial race to Democrat Laura Kelly after alienating independent and moderate GOP voters.
The state saw a heavy reliance on mail-in ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic, and at least 234,000 voters cast ballots in advance -- more than double the number from the 2018 and 2016 primaries. Counties could accept ballots until Friday so long as they were postmarked Tuesday, creating uncertainty that the GOP Senate primary would be decided before then.
Many Republicans were nervous about the Senate race because the presumed Democratic nominee, state Sen. Barbara Bollier, has raised more than $8.2 million for her campaign, seeing a flood of contributions from outside Kansas. Bollier is a retired Kansas City-area anesthesiologist and former moderate Republican who switched parties in 2018.
Marshall raised about $2.9 million and Kobach a little more than $1 million. Bob Hamilton, the founder of a Kansas City-area plumbing company largely self-funded a campaign heavy on television ads with $3.5 million in personal loans. Those figures were all dwarfed by PAC spending in the primary, which totaled about $11 million.
Marshall, Kobach and Hamilton sat atop an 11-person field, the largest one for the GOP since the state began holding Senate primaries more than 100 years ago. Kansas has no runoff elections, so if Kobach maintains his solid base on the right, he could emerge if the rest of the vote splinters.
Marshall and his allies made Kobach's loss in the governor's race a key issue and argued that he was the best alternative. McConnell's first choice was U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a former Wichita-area congressman, but while Pompeo made multiple visits to Kansas suggesting interest, he declared himself out in January.
Kobach argued that the issues he's often emphasized - particularly immigration - would play better in a fall Senate campaign and said he'd benefit from a flood of pro-Trump voters going to the polls in November after skipping voting in the 2018 midterms. He also played his status an an informal adviser to Trump and the White House and the first prominent Kansas official to endorse Trump's presidential bid in 2016.
Roberts declared his support for Marshall after the congressman had picked up endorsements from the U.S Chamber of Commerce, the Kansas Farm Bureau, the National Right to Life Committee and Kansans for Life, the state's most influential anti-abortion group. He also had the backing of 97-year-old political icon Bob Dole, the former U.S. Senate majority leader and 1996 GOP presidential nominee.
6 a.m. -- Missouri voters on Tuesday will decide whether to expand Medicaid health care coverage to thousands more low-income adults after years of resistance from Republican lawmakers.
The vote on health care, as well as primaries for statewide offices and congressional seats, comes as coronavirus cases are increasing in the state, which could impact voter turnout.
Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature repeatedly rejected Medicaid expansion proposals over the past decade, which prompted supporters to turn to the initiative process.
Idaho, Maine, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Utah have all expanded Medicaid through ballot questions following inaction by state lawmakers, according to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. Oklahoma became the 37th state to expand eligibility for Medicaid under the federal law last month.
Missouri’s Medicaid program currently does not cover most adults without children, and its income eligibility threshold for parents is one of the lowest in the nation at about one-fifth of the poverty level.
The ballot proposal would expand eligibility under the terms of the 2010 federal health care law signed by President Barack Obama. That law provides a higher-than-usual federal funding share for states that expand Medicaid coverage to adults earning up to 138% of the federal poverty level, about $17,600 for an individual or $30,000 for a family of three.
Democratic Auditor Nicole Galloway's office estimated that expanding Medicaid could cost the state at least $200 million or save as much as $1 billion annually by 2026. Republican opponents cite the potential costs as reason to oppose the ballot initiative.
"Amendment 2 will be a knockout blow to the state budget as more services will be cut or eliminated to pay for the health care of able-bodied adults,” state House Budget Chairman Cody Smith said.
By proposing a constitutional amendment instead of a new law, Missouri supporters have ensured that lawmakers will be unable to change it without going back to voters.
Backers include the Missouri Hospital Association and groups with particular sway over Republicans such as the Missouri Catholic Conference and Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Republican Gov. Mike Parson, who opposes Medicaid expansion and is up for election this year, in May moved the vote on the proposal up from the Nov. 3 general election to Tuesday's primary.
Galloway is trying to unseat Parson. Her campaign has said Parson switched the day of the vote on Medicaid because fewer people typically vote in August compared to November, possibly giving opponents a better chance of defeating the measure.
Voter turnout during the 2016 presidential general election in Missouri was almost three times higher than turnout for that year's August primary. Even in 2018, a record year for turnout during a primary, roughly 1 million more voters turned up at the polls in November compared to August.
Parson has said his decision was not about politics.
Voters on Tuesday also will pick the Republican and Democratic candidates for Congress, the Missouri governor's seat and other statewide offices, and state legislative seats.
Parson and Galloway have primary opponents, but both are expected to be nominated by their respective political parties.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, whose job performance has been lauded by some civil rights activists and criticized by President Donald Trump and other leading Republicans, faces a challenge from former homicide prosecutor Mary Pat Carl.
SAMPLE BALLOTS IN KANSAS
Douglas County Clerk's Office (Aug. 4 sample ballots/Voter registration search)
Johnson County Election Office (Find your sample ballot)
Leavenworth County Election Information (Aug. 4 sample ballots)
Linn County Clerk and Election Office (Aug. 4 sample ballots)
Miami County Election Information (Find your sample ballot)
Wyandotte County Election Office (Find your sample ballot)
SAMPLE BALLOTS IN MISSOURI
Bates County Clerk’s Office (Aug. 4 sample ballot)
Cass County Clerk’s Office(Aug. 4 sample ballot)
Clinton County Election Information (Aug. 4 sample ballot)
Henry County Clerk’s Office and Aug. 4 sample ballots
Jackson County Election Board (Aug. 4 sample ballots)
Johnson County (Missouri) Election Information (Find your sample ballot)
KCMO Election Board (Aug. 4 sample ballots)
Lafayette County Clerk’s Office(Find your sample ballot)
Platte County Board of Elections (Find your sample ballot)
Ray County Clerk’s Office (Find your sample ballot)
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