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Article snippet: Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a staunch ally of MORE, has secured the GOP nomination for Kansas governor after his rival conceded Tuesday night following a hotly contested Republican primary. The state's sitting governor, Jeff Colyer, conceded to his hardline conservative rival a week after the race remained too close to call with all precincts reporting before counting provisional ballots. “This election is probably the closest in America, but the numbers just aren’t there unless we go to extraordinary measures.” Colyer served less than a year in office after ascending to the governorship when his predecessor Sam Brownback (R) left to take an ambassadorship in the Trump administration. Trump may have delivered the fatal blow to Colyer's hopes of serving a full term, with the president endorsing Kobach in a tweet just a day before the Kansas primary last week. Kobach had served as vice chairman of the president's so-called election integrity commission, which failed to come up with evidence to back up Trump's false claim that millions of illegal voters had cast ballots in the 2016 presidential election. In his own press conference Tuesday, Kobach credited Trump for his win. "There's no question that the election day voting went much more strongly for me as compared to the advance voting," Kobach said, according to The Kansas City Star. Kobach will now face state Sen. Laura Kelly (D), who easily won her primary last Tuesday, in the November general elec... Link to the full article to read more