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Want to make Senate Republicans pay for their vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court? #FlipTheSenate
Bollier trailed by a 52-43 margin as of 11 p.m. Tuesday, costing Democrats an opportunity to flip another seat.
Bollier endorsed the idea of taking away Kansans' guns in a video that was obtained in October. She pointed to Australia's confiscation as a positive example.
"They have no guns. They don’t allow them. They just took them all away," she said. "And, you know what, it’s pretty darn safe. It’s this amazing thing."
Bollier reacted to the publication of the video by attempting to walk back her comments. She tweeted she doesn't support gun confiscation and never has.
Barbara Bollier is making the Kansas Senate race more competitive than many imagined.
Kansas has a chance to elect a Democrat to the US Senate for the first time in 88 years. It doesn’t matter that she’s a former Republican. You win by appealing to the voters in your state, not to the Twitterati.
Democrats will gain power and retain power by adhering to a 50 state strategy (51 after DC is admitted). Ignoring voices outside the Northeast and the West Coast is a strategy for permanent powerlessness.
In 2020 we need to help people like Barbara Bollier in Kansas, Steve Bullock in Montana, Jaime Harrison in South Carolina, Theresa Greenfield in Iowa, and other Dems fighting to push back against Republican misrule.
In 2018 one of four Kansas congressional districts went Democratic and we came very close in a second one. So electing a Democratic senator from Kansas is no longer considered science fiction.
We can help all Democratic US Senate candidates through the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Eight Democratic senators rallied behind Kansas candidate Barbara Bollier Tuesday, using Twitter to urge their constituents to donate to her campaign in the competition’s final month.
The race between Bollier and Republican Roger Marshall is within single digits, according to two internal polls obtained by The Star last week.
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Barbara became a doctor to help people and she went into public service to fix things that were broken. Now she's running for US Senate.
In the heartland state of Kansas, long seen as deep-red territory where Democrats rarely have a shot at winning key elections, hope is beginning to stir that the party could pull off an unlikely win in a crucial Senate seat. The state senator Barbara Bollier, a former Republican and physician, is the vehicle for these ambitions – which if they came off could decide whether the party grabs overall control of the US Senate in January. Bollier has proved to be a formidable fundraiser and, in an interview with the Guardian, described how she plans to attract independents and Republicans in Kansas in the general election against an establishment Republican candidate, the US congressman Roger Marshall.
Politics Meet the Republican-turned-Democrat who could flip a Senate seat in Kansas The Guardian Daniel Strauss ,The Guardian•August 24, 2020 In the heartland state of Kansas, long seen as deep-red territory where Democrats rarely have a shot at winning key elections, hope is beginning to stir that the party could pull off an unlikely win in a crucial Senate seat.
The state senator Barbara Bollier, a former Republican and physician, is the vehicle for these ambitions – which if they came off could decide whether the party grabs overall control of the US Senate in January.
Bollier has proved to be a formidable fundraiser and, in an interview with the Guardian, described how she plans to attract independents and Republicans in Kansas in the general election against an establishment Republican candidate, the US congressman Roger Marshall.
“What I want to highlight is the fact that as a physician, as a current legislator, I am an independent voice and work hard to listen to the people and bring their ideas and needs forward in a bipartisan fashion, cooperating and working together,” Bollier said in an interview with the Guardian.
Bollier left the Republican party in 2018. She said she had grown dissatisfied with the party’s opposition to Medicaid expansion and record on balancing budgets. She said that those priorities “are still in place with me but they were not being followed by the Republican leadership in this state”.
“They were not following public education,” Bollier said, adding that the then Republican Kansas governor, Sam Brownback, “put in a horrific tax plan that broke and caused us to have to borrow money to meet our bills. That is not a traditional Republican value, borrowing money. And at a point you realize: ‘I can best represent our people following the values that they want as a Democrat.’”
Michigan primary tests Tlaib; Meijer wins GOP contest in 3rd
Michigan primary tests Tlaib; Meijer wins GOP contest in 3rd
Michigan’s essential Tuesday included a genuine test to an occupant congresswoman and battles for two U.S. House seats where a Republican and a previous GOP part are resigning.
The political decision — set apart by a flood of mail-in non-attendant voting forms during the coronavirus pandemic — additionally molded races in November for two or three conceivably serious congressional regions…
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