you can expect sam brownback to fight back with the tools at his disposal. yesterday rick santorum came to kansas to campaign on brownback's behalf. now, whether that helps him in the general election isn't clear. most of the people, steve, who support rick santorum are already voting for sam brownback. what he has to do is figure out a way to reach out to moderates, concerned about education. in that sense, you might expect, for example, jeb bush to come to kansas. he's come to kansas for sam brownback before. he would give sam brownback some credibility with those mod ratsrats , independents, people in the middle. you're going to see both sides trying to use surrogates, trying to make their case, trying to work on endorsements, that type of thing. we've got a real, real close race and while as you pointed out in your intro, democrats don't do very well at all at the presidential election, or the senate level, the state does have some history of electing democrats. kathleen sebelius, john carlin. democrats have a shot and really think they have a chance in t

sam brownback will stay on talking points. small businesses are mushrooming around and nobody will call him on. although i guess republicans, people in his own party, are saying enough. this is the straw that broke the camel's back. and one of the things is education. and seems like cuts to soerl program, cuts to education programs were the things that pushed republicans over. >> i think in a certain kind of east coast corridor, there is an association of teachers and teachers unions with democratic constituencies, innercity kids and inner city teachers. out in kansas, teachers aren't a politicized profession in the way they're thought of in the big city battles. teachers are the people who teach your kids in the neighborhood. they cut education funding so much, the state supreme court found their education cuts in violation of the state constitution and required them to raise money. kansas has allege had high education in national rankings. that has started to slip. picking on teachers in kansas is not a political winner beca

the other thing to think about sam brownback, he is being eclipsed in some ways by other conservativesat the presidential level. scott walker is a good example. another governor who gets national publicity. brownback doesn't seem to be rises to that level in the eye of national republicans. that's why i think the outcome of this task cut debate in kansas and his re-election effort in november is so critical to his future in the party. if he wins, he would be one of the people you'd talk about about 2016 or perhaps 2020 relatively young guy. 2024. he still has presidential ambitions. >> i think i know how his opponent can raise some money. really appreciate you getting up. >>> coming up, you may already be a winner. how you could be the lucky recipient of a tea party republican's money. ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. where you can explore super destinations and do everything under the

kansas governor sam brownback didn't actually make it all the way to zero, but he came close. in 2012, kansas passed a tax bills that cut the state's highest income tax rates and completely exempted small business income. the state general fund is now projected to be over a billion dollars in the red by 2019. at some level, none of this should be surprising. many kansas republicans ran on a platform of slashing tax revenue, the people elected them, followed through and slashed tax revenue, and now the state is broke. thanks in part to the fiscal fallout, governor brownback finds himself in trouble. it's an election year, and he trails his challenger in three out of the four most recent polls. it's not just brownback who's dealing with the tax cuts, it's the citizens of kansas. the lack of funding has some very real consequences. >> we lost the 7th and 8th grade three years ago, and then we lost our fourth grade last year. and budget cuts just seem to be coming down. >> this budget cut is closing the school. when the town loses its school, you lose the town. it's just kind of h

governor sam brownback and how he's making the case his budget move was good. but why are some republicans still simmering about it. this is the daily rundown. a busy day here. let's get right to my first read of the morning. and we stick to the topic at happened which is immigration. last time president obama talked about immigration in texas, he was in campaign mode and he was on offense. he was attacking the republicans in congress for stalling immigration reform. >> all the stuff they asked for, we've done. they said we needed to triple the border patrol. we're now -- they say will we need to quadruple the border patrol or they will want a hire fence. maybe they will need a moat, maybe they want alley gators in t alley gators in the moat. they will never be satisfied. >> he'll be in texas again today. this time it's for fund raisers. austin and dallas. but today, the confidence is gone and the white house is definitely in a defensive posture. yet another event appears to be controlling them rather than the other way around. this week was supposed to be abou

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. >>> kansas governor sam brownback is running for re-election, it's been a tough campaign for him, becauseenemies and not just with democrats, but members of his own party. brownback saw a group of moderate republican state senators as roadblocks. in 2012, he got involved in their primaries. >> the governor recruited republicans to run against his own party's incumbents. and with the help of americans for prosperity, successfully ousted most of those moderate republican senators. >> it's incredibly rare for the head of a party to back primary opponents over incumbents from his own party yet he did just that. citing an alliance between some democrats and republicans in the senate. nationally, the gop has long used the ideology to move the party to the right. you can only stretch it so far. you might be poised to see the rubber band snap back in kansas. yesterday in a remarkable turn of events, 104 republicans came out and endorsed paul davis, the democrat challenging sam brownback for governor. >> i think this is important. and i think that you can't just sit by and watch something unfold,

red state kansas is somehow competitive for sam brownback and wisconsin's scott walker looks no better or worse than he did six months ago, maybe even a little worse out. ohio's john kassick in better shape. john hickenlooper also remains vulnerable. and of course there's florida, the most expensive race in the country on any level. here's the big question for the next 99 days, though. in the end what is the fall election going to be about? republicans want to make it about president obama, but the question is what about obama? is it health care, the economy, the president's leadership overseas? democrats want 2014 to be about republican obstruction and are doing their best to pointing their finger at congress. neither party has come up with one signature defining issue which has the power to dominate this election and that's probably the most remarkable nondevelopment over the first seven months of this election cycle. much more on the 99-day beyonddowbeyon countdown. we'll have a look at the nine races we believe are important and plus four wild cards. >>> first we'll go to the middl

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american politics, while representative ryan worked on capitol hill, as a legislative director for sam brownback, he also moonlighted as a waiter and fitness trainer. in 199 , at the ripe old age of 28, he was elected to congress and became chairman of the budget committee in 2011. has all but -- all but the terminally obtuse will recall he was the republican party's vice-presidential nominee in 2012. so ends the buy graphingal portion of the program and now the ever so compelling recitation of ground rules. we're on the record here. please no live blogging or tweeting and no filing of any kind while the breakfast is under way to give us time to actually listen to what our guest says. there's no embargo in the session ends. to help you curb that relentless selfie urge we will email pictures of session to all reporters here as soon as the breakfast ends. as regular attendees know if you like to ask a question, please do the traditional thing and send me a subtle nonthreatening signal. and i'll happily call on and all on the time we have available. we will start off by offering our guest the oppor

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