Posted on 02/11/2017 7:25:56 PM PST by Olog-hai
Kansas Democrats hoping to turn voter discontent into an upset picked civil rights attorney Jim Thompson to run for the U.S. House seat that Mike Pompeo vacated to become CIA director under President Donald Trump.
Thompson, a 46-year-old political newcomer and Army veteran, will run against Republican state Treasurer Ron Estes in the April 11 special election.
It will be the nation’s first special congressional election since Trump’s win, and Democrats view it as their best chance to flip the seat representing the heavily Republican 4th District in southern Kansas.
After winning the Democratic nomination, Thompson, told delegates that the nation was watching. “This is going to be a referendum on Trump’s policies,” the Wichita attorney said. …
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They’re running on hate and want to flip Kansas?
State went big for Trump in November. Talk about nurturing delusion.
Question one, what is your position on the ninth circuit ruling on temporarily halting immigration from seven countries?
LOL.
Trump has been President less than a month and liberals now want a referendum.
In the meantime, all the Democrats have said is “NO.” Go figure.
I don’t think a civil rights lawyer will fly in KANSAS.
Congrats to the proprietor of this web site for finally being given a shot at Congress! Go Jim Thomspon!!!
Kansas is flyover country. Democrats soliciting votes from white voters whom they heavily detest.
I mean they’re racist, fascist, sexist, homophobe and Islamophobe.
Why on earth would a Democrat want to represent white people?
It doesn’t compute.
Kansas 2016 Presidential election: 57.2% Trump vs 36.2% Clinton. These Democrats are sniffing glue.
KS-4 is 60.2% Trump, 33% Hillary. Hasn’t elected a Democrat member since Dan Glickman in 1992.
Democrats don’t understand why they lost and they will lash out some more after they lose again on April 11.
They’ll blame Kansans for being snookered by Trump.
> voter discontent
These guys are really delusional. They believe their own astroturf operations.
> “This is going to be a referendum on Trump’s policies”
All three weeks of them.
I just love the smell burnt donkey in the morning!
If that's the best shot they've got, they're screwed!
Has to be on Olbermann’s advise.
Army Veteran? Really don’t want to question his service, but I just wonder from whom he got his Democrat “values”.
Heck, "Army veteran" just means that he finished one enlistment. For that matter, since they don't seem to be making much more of that fact, it's possible that he didn't even finish a full enlistment but still got out with good paper.
Being an Army retiree myself, I'll be the first to say that being called an "Army veteran" .. but not a "combat veteran" or "retiree" .. isn't too high of a bar.
Well, my Mom and Dad were WWII Veterans and raised us to love God and Country. . .but I guess that didn’t happen in all Vets’ households back then either.
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