Roger Marshall bests Kris Kobach in Kansas GOP Senate race, plus more key takeaways from Tuesday's primaries

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Rep. Roger Marshall's victory is a win for Republicans who feared that if Kris Kobach won the primary, it could possibly leave room for the Democrats' candidate to win in the general election in November.

And the results are still slowly coming in. Michigan, Arizona, Kansas, Missouri and Washington all held primaries Tuesday.Marshall's main competitor was former Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach. In the past several weeks, the race tightened between the two after a super PAC with links to Democrats spent $5 million boosting Kobach and slamming Marshall.

Marshall will go on to compete against Democrat Barbara Bollier, who won her primary Tuesday evening. Bollier is a state senator who left the Republican Party in 2018.Progressive Cori Bush beats incumbent Rep. William Lacy Clay Bush, who became a political activist following the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014 in Ferguson, has been endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and is backed by Justice Democrats, who helped elect progressive candidates like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.Coronavirus pandemic creates America's first female recession amid child care, unemployment woes

Tlaib has been considered one of the most vulnerable members of the"Squad" for reelection. In July, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is also a member of the “Squad" — a group of progressive congresswomen elected in 2018 — bested her own primary challenger last month.Peter Meijer, a military veteran and member of the family of a retail chain that shares their family name, won the GOP primary to replace retiring Rep. Justin Amash for Michigan's 3rd Congressional District.

 

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It is time for Kobach to either get a job or go back into his hole where he came from.

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Kobach is a trump stooge financed by Peter Thiel. This is a big loss for the MAGA cult. Democrats can still take this seat.

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