Kobach Loses Kansas AG Race Amid Prolonged Count
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach loses to Democrat Chris Mann after extended election count.
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Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach has been ousted from office following a drawn-out election count that stretched days after Tuesday’s midterm elections. The Associated Press called the race for Democrat Chris Mann on Friday, ending days of uncertainty about the outcome.
By Friday evening, Mann was leading Kobach by approximately 13,000 votes, with the results still awaiting official certification. The lengthy count continues to raise questions about why voters must wait days to learn the outcome of elections, even in states such as Kansas that predominantly rely on in-person voting.
Republican Kris Kobach appears to have lost Kansas’ attorney general race, with Democrat Chris Mann leading by roughly 12,000 votes.
Kansas allows mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to arrive up to three days afterward. Election officials continued adding votes through Friday, while several close statewide contests remained unresolved. The state also ordered additional audits in six races, including the contests for governor, attorney general and secretary of state.
Those audits involve manually checking ballots against machine-tabulated results. Kansas Orders Hand-Count Audits in SIX Razor-Thin Election Races — But Vast Majority of Precincts Will NOT Be Manually Rechecked Under Close-Race Audit
Kobach has been a leading figure in conservative politics for nearly two decades, serving as Kansas secretary of state from 2011 to 2019 before becoming attorney general in 2023. During his tenure, he repeatedly challenged the Biden administration over illegal immigration, transgender policies and regulatory overreach.
He also fought to strengthen election integrity measures and pursued tougher penalties against fentanyl traffickers. Just last week, he revealed how left-wing non-profits had been offering gift cards in return for voting for his opponent.
Mann, a former police officer and prosecutor, previously lost to Kobach in 2022 before returning for this year’s rematch. His victory will hand Democrats control of the Kansas attorney general’s office for the first time since 2011.
Democrats also captured Kansas’s U.S. Senate seat for the first time in nearly a century, with Adam Hamilton defeating Republican incumbent Roger Marshall. Meanwhile, Cindy Holscher won the governorship and Republicans lost their supermajority in the state House.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
