Chris Mann
Democrat elected Kansas attorney general in 2026, unseating Kris Kobach in a rematch.
Mann unseated Attorney General Kris Kobach, 552,753 votes to 539,297, on the Associated Press call of 6 November, reversing Kobach's 2022 win; the race sits in a Kansas close-race audit that counties must finish by 16 November.
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Chris Mann is the Democratic attorney general-elect of Kansas. On the Associated Press call of 6 November, Mann had 50.62% and Kobach 49.38%, KCUR reported. The Associated Press tally then stood at 99% reporting. Kobach had beaten him by about 17,000 votes when they first met in 2022. Mann takes office in January 2027, and Kobach stays attorney general until then.
He joined the police at 21 and served until a drunk driver struck him during a traffic stop in 2002. He then studied law and became a prosecutor in the Wyandotte County District Attorney's Office. The Kansas State Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed him in 2026.
The office he inherits litigates Kansas election law. He takes it from Kobach, who spent years pressing for voters to prove citizenship with documents before they can register. Because his race finished within a point, Secretary of State Scott Schwab put it through a close-race audit on 4 November. Kansas county boards are checking a 10% sample of precincts against the machine totals, with a 16 November deadline.
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