US primaries: In Kansas, Jerry Moran gets Republican nod for senate race

Jerry Moran won the GOP nomination for the US Senate in the Kansas primaries. As per the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office, the incumbent senator held a lead of nearly 17,000 votes when the Associated Press called the race in his favour. 

The 68-year-old has held the seat since 2011. Moran beat out Joan Farr, of Derby, in the primary and will face Mark Holland, the Democratic candidate who emerged from a crowded field. The general election is in November. 

Moran’s biography describes the American as a “leading advocate for protecting and preserving the special way of life in Kansas”. His page also speaks of his “long history of opposing reckless spending in Washington”, and as a member of the  Senate Appropriations Committee, Moran has pushed for “spending cuts, tougher funding standards, and broad reform”.

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He’s also the lead Republican on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, allowing Moran’s decisions to affect the funding of the Department of Justice, the FBI, NASA, the United States Trade Representative and the Department of Commerce, among others.

Moran also leads the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee and is dedicated to improving the lives of veterans in Kansas and across the US. 

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His page reads, “Senator Moran has made it his top priority to stay connected to the people he represents. Despite the distance of more than 1,000 miles between Washington, D.C., and Kansas, he returns home each weekend to meet with people from across the state. The conversations he has with Kansans during his travels around the state greatly impact the work he does in Washington.” 

Moran was one of the senators who’d opposed the creation of the committee to investigate the Jan 6 insurrection at the Capitol, after then-president Donald Trump’s tweets riled up followers who believed the 2020 election had been stolen from him.