Washington journal viewers know that there is a special election taking place in kansas today. For more on that, we are joined by dion lefler of the wichita eagle. This is usually a traditional safely republican seat. This is not safe at all. This has been 20 years since we James Thompson. And this is not safe at all. All the experts say this could go either way. Host remind us how we got here . Pompeo wasuse mike appointed as chief of the Central Intelligence agency. And that opened the seat. And we have been having a special election ever since. If heated up in the last week. Republicans started to get nervous about the seat. So they pumped quite a bit of money into the ron estes campaign. Yesterday we had ted cruz, who is a very republican popular there here in kansas and thompson people have been fighting back. They got a lot of money and from small donors and democrat for donors around the country. Host a tweet about three minutes ago from president trumps twitter ron estes is running today for congress in kansas. I need his help on health care and tax cut reform. What should we read from the president tweeting about this . That is the fourth congressional district. Is is about the Bigger Picture here about national politics, trump, democrats, congress . Guest it really started out you saw the first inklings that James Thompson could be a factor here with the womens march. We had 3500 women marching in downtown wichita. That is almost unprecedented. That probably was a trump factor. Factor number two is that our well, i is probably believe he is the least popular governor in america right now. His best popularity rating is around 25 . So the James Thompson campaign has hammered on the people right now are not happy with the state government. Deficita huge budget and there are big fights going on in our state capital. So that has been a factor. Interestingon is an he is an interesting evolution for the democratic arty because he has been Bernie Sanders supporter. The moreocked off establishment democrat in the Many Convention they had to choose the nominee. Kansasof the energy in people who were former who were part of the Bernie Sanders phenomenon last year. So theyre out there working. They are working hard. And that is giving him a big boost. Host what time are we expected to know the results tonight . Good question. We have new voting machines. So we will see how that goes. But we will probably be hearing something by 9 00. 9 00 or so, central time. Your time. Host good luck covering that all. A busy day for you out there. Thank you for the time