Kris Kobach wins while losing elections Today's best articles Daily business briefing Kris Kobach is back. Again. The former Kansas secretary of state â an unabashedly Trumpist Republican known nationally both for his priceyanti-immigrationactivism and a fruitless obsession with voter fraud â announced last week he will run to become the state's attorney general in 2022. Kansas politics are about the last thing on his mind, though. He has his eyes on Washington, D.C. "Far and away the No. 1 reason why I am running is to stand between an overreaching Biden administration with unconstitutional and illegal executive orders and the people of Kansas," Kobach said during his announcement.