Laura Kelly

Kelly vetoed several bills, including one that would protect minors from sex-change drugs and procedures, and two others related to abortion. 

Kansas is banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports from kindergarten through college, the first of several possible new laws restricting the rights of transgender people pushed through by Republican legislators over the wishes of the Democratic governor.

The Kansas State Senate passed legislation that would prevent men from using women’s restrooms. The bill has already been passed in the House.

Incumbent Kansas Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly has secured a second term in an extremely close election against Derek Schmidt.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) has a 3-point lead over Republican challenger Derek Schmidt ahead of the state’s gubernatorial race, a new poll from Emerson College Polling and the The Hill shows.

Republican gubernatorial candidate and Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt slammed incumbent Gov. Laura Kelly (D) for claiming to be a moderate Democrat while “supporting and funding drag shows for kids of all ages.”

Derek Schmidt’s campaign for governor is set to release a political ad on Tuesday highlighting his tough-on-crime record.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) refrained from clarifying her stance on several key issues during her second gubernatorial debate.

Kelly returned to denying biological reality after receiving backlash for releasing an ad stating: “men should not play girls’ sports.”

Kansas Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly (D) released an ad attempting to whitewash her record of dismissing biological reality in favor of far-left gender ideology.

The Kansas gubernatorial race is extremely close ahead of election day, with Kelly leading Schmidt within a new survey’s margin of error.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) traveled to Olathe, Kansas, over the weekend to endorse state Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s endeavor to swipe the governorship from Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly.

Schmidt promised to stand up to big government and Kelly tried to pitch herself as a moderate in the state’s first gubernatorial debate.

Kelly doubled down on her decision to veto various Republican-led bills and called on voters to elect more Democrats to the state legislature.

Vulnerable incumbent Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) turned down the opportunity to take on her Republican challenger at three debates.

Schmidt pointed a new report which showed how 9-year-olds saw the largest average score decline in reading since 1990.

Kansas school officials agreed this week to pay a teacher $95,000 after they suspended her for refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns.

The advertisement hammers President Joe Biden on inflation and Gov. Laura Kelly (D) for “making it worse.”

Gubernatorial candidates in two of the nation’s top toss-up races are gearing up to square off in public debates ahead of November elections.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt won the Republican primary race for governor in his state on Tuesday and will now compete in the general election against incumbent Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly.

Voters in Missouri, Arizona, Michigan, Washington State, Kansas, and Ohio head to the polls on Tuesday to again test the resolve of former President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, with several key races from coast to coast setting the tone for the future of the Republican Party.

A group affiliated with the Republican Governors Association is launching an ad Tuesday targeting Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) for recent remarks she made about a possible recession.

Attorney General Derek Schmidt (R) holds a narrow lead over Gov. Laura Kelly (D) in the Kansas governor’s race, according to an internal GOP polling memo published Monday.

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly (D) vetoed a GOP-led bill on Friday that would have prevented males identifying as females from infiltrating and dominating girls’ sports.

Democrat Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bill that will once again allow local police to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

The GOP reportedly does not have the two-thirds majority needed to override “an almost certain-veto” from Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly.

The Kansas Senate voted 27-11 on Tuesday to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s (D) veto of the legislature’s proposed congressional map. 

Four Kansas state Senate Republicans on Monday night voted with the Democrats to protect Gov. Laura Kelly’s (D) veto on the state’s redistricted maps.

Former President Donald Trump weighed in on Monday on the tight gubernatorial race taking shape in Kansas, announcing his endorsement for the frontrunning Republican candidate, Attorney General Derek Schmidt.

The Kansas State Legislature passed a measure this week designed to protect workers from employer vaccine mandates, requiring businesses to provide wide-ranging exemptions. 

President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandate for companies with 100 or more employees now has opposition from members of his own party, with Democrat Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly leading the charge.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) is standing by her decision to travel to a Democratic Governors Association (DGA) conference in New Mexico this month instead of staying in state to attend Kansas’s annual law enforcement memorial ceremony.

Gov. Laura Kelly (D) missed an annual law enforcement memorial ceremony in her state that Kansas governors have attended every year for the past decade and instead traveled to New Mexico for a Democratic Governors Association (DGA) conference.

Gov. Laura Kelly (D) issued a response after months-long calls from Republicans to send support from Kansas to the southern border, saying last week for the first time that about 250 Kansas National Guard troops had been stationed at the border since last October.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Wednesday he is backing Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt in Kansas’s 2022 gubernatorial race as Schmidt vies to unseat Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat running for reelection in the solid red Sunflower State.

Former Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer announced he is dropping out of Kansas’s gubernatorial race, after disclosing he was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer.