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Originally Posted by New Era
In Trouble
John Cornyn (Texas)
Kelly Loeffler (Georgia)
Joni Ernst (Iowa)
Pat Roberts (Kansas) (retired)
Lindsey Graham (South Carolina)
Mitch McConnell (Kentucky)
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Of these, the Kansas race seems to be particularly interesting: Democrats nominated Barbara Bollier, a former moderate Republican who recently quit that party over their failed fiscal experiments in Kansas, and, importantly, is a former physician, and has made both medicare expansion and K-12 school funding priorities of her career. And that was even before both those issues are being thrust to the forefront of the national spotlight. While some Democratic candidate choices get criticism, Bollier looks like a case of nominating exactly the right candidate.
And there's a solid chance she'll be running against Kris Kolbach, the anti-immigrationist who was recruited by Trump to prove allegations of voter fraud, failed to turn up any, returned to Kansas to run for governor and solidly lost to one of Bollier's allies, Laura Kelly.
I could imagine a lot of split-ticket voters in states like Kansas and Iowa who reluctantly vote for Trump out of some sense of loyalty, but vote for Democratic senators out of the feeling that he needs more of a check against his power than the Republican senate provided.