A quick programming note: Candidate Confessional, our podcast by Sam Stein and Jason Cherkis, interviews people who lost high-profile races and gets them to open up about the experience. It's been nominated for a Webby and I have a favor to ask: if you have a moment today, please go vote for it here. It's languishing in fifth place right now (sad!) and if everybody on this email gives it a boost, it could shoot up to the top. And it really does deserve it.
If you've never listened to it, here it is on itunes or soundcloud. I can't recommend it highly enough.
On to Kansas: yesterday I was on Warren Olney's NPR show To The Point to talk about the special election today in Kansas, the one next week in Georgia, and the one in May in Montana. (Audio here.)
Republicans are sweating it hard. Ted Cruz is campaigning in Kansas, and Donald Trump took to twitter this morning to try boost the Republican, following robocalls he dumped into the district yesterday. That follows a ton of money they poured into the race, which was then matched by Democratic small-dollar donors, who pumped in a few hundred thousand in an awfully short period.
Our story on that race is here. By the numbers, Republicans should win this race by 30 points, but an internal GOP poll had it as a single-digit contest a week ago, the New York Times' Jonathan Martin reports from Wichita. Anything can happen, and this is likely to be one of those days when I hit your inbox twice. I'll be back tonight once a winner has been declared.
Oh, the cherry on the top: this is the district that represents Koch Industries.
Meanwhile, Customs and Border Patrol is becoming an increasingly rogue agency, now that it's been unleashed by Trump. Roque Planas and Elise Foley have a story of blatant lawbreaking when a woman and her children sought asylum at the border recently.
If you're in Wichita, go out and do your patriotic duty and vote, and let me know how turnout looks.
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