Democratic congressional candidate James Thompson in KS-04 has asked that an NRCC TV ad, which attacks him on abortion, be pulled for including false statements.
The ad is part of a national GOP attempt to boost Thompson’s opponent, Ron Estes, in the first congressional race to follow President Trump’s win.
When questioned about the NRCC ad, Estes told news channel KWCH that he had not viewed it until they showed it to him. When KWCH asked the NRCC for their sources, they were referred to a Thompson Facebook video that did not back up all of the ad’s statements.
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Estes’s mailings also cite a February forum at Friends University. The moderator of the forum, political science professor Russell Arben Fox, states in a public Facebook post that Thompson’s comments at the event did not justify the statements in the ad.
National GOP efforts in Wichita include not only the ad buy but also a planned visit by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday. Vice President Mike Pence was expected to record a robocall; U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan put out a fundraising request.
Yet in the district Cook Political has judged to be no longer Solid Republican, residents may not take well to the NRCC fabricating Thompson’s positions.
As small business owner Levi Henry told me, “There’s one thing you don’t do in Wichita: lie.”
The special election is on Tuesday, April 11.