Kansas Rep. Watkins unseated after facing criminal charges

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2019 file photo, U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins, R-Kan., makes a point during a town hall meeting in Topeka, Kan. Freshman Rep. Watkins is fighting to keep his seat in the state’s Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020 Republican primary while facing felony criminal charges. Watkins hoped to overcome a challenge from State Treasurer Jake LaTurner in the 2nd District in eastern Kansas.

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.

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.

Hmmmm... Why is voter fraud always a Republican?

All Republicans do is lie, cheat and steal

Cheating is one of the fundamental Republican values.

This is what happens when you try to take a page from Donald’s playbook but dont have the US Attorney General to back your play.

More voter fraud....all by the GOP.

Does someone still consider AP to be “news”?

Well there it is. Trumps theoretical voter fraud on display

Is he going to serve any jail time like the two black women now in jail?

And this my people is who realDonaldTrump supports..I guess brains aren’t required to be a trump supporter!!!! VoteBlueToSaveAmerica VoteBiden2020!!

And I thought my apartment was small.

RiskyLiberal If you have committed voter fraud you should lose your voting privileges for a time period {10 years) and the obvious, never to hold a political position!

Steve isn't very bright. Steve will probably end up in prison. Bye Steve.

RiskyLiberal oh stop. you're breakin' my heart😶

What?! That sounds like the PERFECT Republican candidate. 🤣

Everytime you hear about election fraud it’s a Republican.

BYE Steve

This must be the mail in voter fraud the Republicans and realDonaldTrump is so worried about, huh? The irony is rich 😅

The GOP knows about mail in voter fraud because they’re the ones committing it

Lock him up

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I've rather hoping this should speed his route to Leavenworth... not the town, the prison.

I knew that kinda guy in HS... he was a creepoid then and he's a creepoid now. Kinda like the following pic but after dark... Illustration:

Meanwhile democrats try to continue with voterfraud mail in voting USPostalService election integrity 🤣🤣🤣no matter who votes or how many times😂😂 ballotharvesting for weeks after election 😂😂

I wonder why it is, that nearly every instance of voter fraud ive read about this cycle, has been from republicans?

DONALD! WE FOUND YOUR ELECTION FRAUD. IT QASNT MAIL IN BALLOTS AFTER ALL!

royaleight A perfect poster boy for election fraud, Republican style.

But Democrats are the ones who commit voter fraud huh

Naturally a Republican is involved in either sex scandals & cheating but think they should win our votes .. BS! Not happening

Tired of hearing about Orange 🍊 dude is “DISTRACTING”! Dude is a SOCIOPATH who is straight-up LYING! A DRAMA thing! Ask his niece Mary Trump PH D! ORANGE 🍊 will CREATE UNNECESSARY DRAMA 24-7/365 Days a year. Dude is a SICK specimen! AMERICANS should be EMBARRASSED by his SH!

Got em

EagleGuardian2 Of course. A republican. In Kansas. Where Kris Kobach was such an expert in voter suppression.

Typucal of Rethuglikkkans, accuse your enemies of that which you are guilty of.

How the fuck was he still even on the ballot?!?!?!?

Bye

thegooddoginc Sounds like the one we have here in MAINE. A nobody in a wheelchair came down from the heavens to support trump! I guess. A nobody!

He tried to to take a lesson out of Donald’s playbook, he obviously didn’t get it.

Kobach Watkins Election night in America Election2020 SteveKornacki

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Republicans gotta cheat. It's what they do best.

Hey look , a Republican charged with election fraud. Shocking

Figures.

Wtf

I'm sorry. Fuci, or whoever bungled Trump's prep for this hatchet job with Axios, has got to go. Trump should have stuck the South Korean data up Axios's a** in about one second, making the absolutely irrefutable case for the Zelenko protocol in the process. I must be dreaming.

Hey senatemajldr You About To Lose Yo Job

Seems petty.

RealAssTalkNow B52Malmet HillBeverlyhill Well hear is another example of members of the GOP who did’t care to play fair. Yes election fraud is a crime.

You can have value and meaning while being authentic. ShapeYourStory

One down. Dozens to go.

So here is ONE election fraud case

Ozarks

And so it begins.

Haha! Dudes a clown. Gotta watch that voter fraud.

Oh the irony

😂

Guilty

Typical GOP

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Typical

Good. Every corrupt and criminal member of the GOP should be booted out!

At least he didn’t marry his sister.

Well what do you know, Donald Trump is right, mail-in voter fraud strikes again and once again, it’s by a Republican. realDonaldTrump

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What a horrible example for future generations

nah dude, I heard from the media that election fraud never happens.

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