By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Kansas U.S. Senate candidate Kris Kobach says ads attacking him are doing so because he's ahead in the Republican primary, though he acknowledges the race is close with Congressman Roger Marshall.
"Some of the ads that people are hearing, the really nasty ones about me are being run by a group out of Washington D.C. that has connections to Mitch McConnell," Kobach said. "They don't want a conservative, someone who is not going to back down. People who know me know that I don't compromise with the left. Mitch McConnell wants a yes man."
As a former Constitutional law professor, Kobach sees his role in advice and consent on judicial nominees as his first job.
"Job one is getting more originalist judges on the Supreme Court and on the lower federal courts," Kobach said. "We've got way too many activists who are trying to change our laws and change our Constitution. If we have originalist justices and judges, then we will have better protection for our Second Amendment, we will be able to overturn Roe v. Wade and better protect the right to life."
Immigration policy may have been seen as a race issue in previous campaigns, but in a pandemic, it's a safety issue.
"The coronavirus has made crystal clear that the first thing a country needs to do, if there is a global pandemic, is control who enters the country," Kobach said. "President Trump, correctly, shut the front door immediately by closing down our ports of entry to people coming in from China and then later from Europe. The back door is wide open because Congress had never given him sufficient money early enough to get the wall completed in time, so we had 300 miles less of wall than we would have if Congress had acted quickly to close that back door."
Kobach is one of eleven candidates vying for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. The primary is August 4.