The names voters see on the Nov. 8 Kansas Congressional District 3 (CD 3) ballot are two-term incumbent Democrat Rep. Sharice Davids versus Republican challenger Amanda Adkins.
But to the naked ear, the contentious contest for Kansas’ only congressional seat, now occupied by a Democrat, sounds more like a referendum on Democratic President Joe Biden and former Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.
Adkins, a former Kansas Republican Party chair who lost to Davids by 41,000 votes in 2020, says the incumbent is a Biden lackey and, as such, is complicit in supporting policies that GOP candidates across the nation say have fostered a 40-year high in inflation.
Davids repeatedly ties Adkins to Brownback, whose rocky tenure as governor ended in 2018 with the lowest-ever recorded approval ratings for any Sunflower State chief executive.
