Remember Kris Kobach, the former Kansas Secretary of State who in 2014 shot into the national spotlight with a series of anti-immigration and anti-democracy directives that were routinely shot down in courts? And remember how he was appointed in 2017 by Donald Trump to lead a federal “voter fraud” task force that not only found no evidence of voter fraud, but he as Kansas Secretary of State had to send a letter to himself as head of this task force stating that he could not comply with the distribution of data he as vote fraud czar demanded?
Well, he’s back, risking an embarrassing third straight loss at the ballot box that would put in the ranks with the Pauls, Lyndon LaRouche and Ralph Nader. After losing elections for Kansas Governor and US Senator, handing the seats in traditionally “red” Kansas to Democrats, Kobach want to be the state’s Attorney General even though he’s apparently never tried a case (of any type) in a courtroom.
A state nearly 1,500 miles from the Mexican border–but only about 1,000 miles from the Canadian border–Kansas seems an odd place to push for immigration reform on the southern border, but that never stopped Kobach, who claimed millions of “illegals” voted in various elections. (In Kansas, Kobach’s office filed fewer than a dozen voter fraud cases in his two terms as Secretary of State, resulting in six convictions, including four of elderly Republicans who accidentally voted twice).
But according to the Associated Press, Kobach’s ongoing failures isn’t stopping him from seeking to be the state’s Attorney General, who would be responsible for upholding the state’s election laws in the 2024 campaign, which would give him the opportunity to challenge the state’s vote count as well as use his office to bring innumerable nuisance lawsuits for anything that annoys him in federal courts.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Quintana Roo), former US Attorney General John Ashcroft and Focus on the Family founder James Dobson have all endorsed Kobach. His fans support him because they like him “being a fighter.”
“He’s got the most-established reputation of being somebody who’s willing to take on the left,” GOP elections consultant Kris Van Meteren said. Van Meteren didn’t mention that he also has a tendency of losing every one of those confrontations.