A panel of political strategists and journalists said unraveling of abortion rights by the U.S. Supreme Court and antics of former President Donald Trump recast the 2022 election cycle to save Democrats from humiliating Republican seizure of both the U.S. House and Senate.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's centrist appeal, spending advantage and leveraging of Brownback legacy too much for GOP nominee Derek Schmidt to overcome.
U.S. House and U.S. Senate races in 2022 were heavily influenced by abortion politics and former President Trump, despite an inflation-ravaged economy.
The Dole Institute of Politics at KU on Tuesday brought together a panel of campaign staff, political scientists, a journalist and a PAC director to conduct a postmortem on the race Gov. Laura Kelly narrowly won in November.
Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia, accepted the Dole Leadership Prize on Tuesday, Sept. 20 for the 20th programming year of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.