There aren't too many people who would hop on a plane for work these days.

But Dave Weigel over at the Washington Post, he's not like a lot of people.

He says going to Kansas to cover the election that's happening today.

It was worth it.

So why did you want to go to Kansas?

I mean, I imagine, like, you have to really want to go somewhere to go somewhere.

I think that's a fair way to put it.

Kansas stood out to me just because this is a race that literally, when I was there,

no one else had come from East Coast media, generally speaking, to cover it.

This race is a primary for an open Senate seat.

Dave says it's become this portrait of dysfunction in the Republican Party, rendered in miniature.

There are actually 11 candidates on the ballot for the GOP.

But most people, they're focused on just two of them.

Chris Kobach, the former Secretary of State in Kansas, big Trump supporter, and Roger Marshall,

a congressman hoping for a promotion.

Dave sums it up like this.

A race between just one of the most influential conservative politicians of his generation

and a candidate kind of being propped up by the Chamber of Commerce and other groups

because they see him as more electable and they see the iconic conservative Chris Kobach

is the only person who could blow the seat.

This race is illuminating a Republican dread, that the iconic conservative, the one who's

most connected to the president, is also the one most likely to lose.

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