Kris Kobach wins while losing elections

Published May 03 2021 at 2:34 PM GMT

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The former Kansas secretary of state " an unabashedly Trumpist Republican known nationally both for his pricey anti-immigration activism and a fruitless obsession with voter fraud " announced last week he will run to become the state's attorney general in 2022.
Kansas politics are about the last thing on his mind, though.
He has his eyes on Washington, DC "Far and away the No.
1 reason why I am running is to stand between an overreaching Biden administration with unconstitutional and illegal executive orders and the people of Kansas," Kobach said during his announcement.
There is something darkly humorous about Kobach's run for attorney general, given that during his last stint in public service a federal judge ordered him to take remedial classes after he badly fumbled a trial to defend Kansas' strict voter registration law.