Kansas will hold its primary election on Tuesday, August 4, 2026.
CIVPAC endorses Representative Sharice Davids in the Democratic primary for Kansas’s 3rd Congressional District.
This is a straightforward endorsement.
Davids is the only Democrat in Kansas’s congressional delegation. She has repeatedly won in difficult political territory by presenting herself as a practical, business-friendly, center-left Democrat focused on Kansas rather than national ideological performance. That is exactly the kind of Democrat a competitive district needs.
Her primary challenger, Sarah Preu, is running from the left. Preu’s campaign criticizes Davids for taking AIPAC money, voting for immigration enforcement measures, and emphasizing bipartisanship. Her campaign argues that bipartisanship has become a “comfortable way to manage decline” and that Davids’s approach amounts to capitulation.
CIVPAC disagrees.
Bipartisanship is not always a virtue. Sometimes it can become mush, evasion, or surrender. But in a competitive district in Kansas, the ability to work across party lines is not a defect. It is part of the job.
Davids has shown that a Democrat can win and hold Kansas’s 3rd District without sounding like a national progressive activist. That matters. Districts like KS-3 are exactly where Democrats need candidates who can support abortion rights, lower costs, public investment, and fair treatment while still speaking to moderates, independents, business owners, and voters who do not identify with the activist left.
CIVPAC does not endorse every vote Davids has cast or every position she has taken. But the choice in this primary is clear. Democratic primary voters can support an incumbent who has learned how to represent a politically mixed Kansas district, or they can nominate a challenger whose critique points toward a narrower and more ideological Democratic Party.
CIVPAC believes Democratic voters should choose the practical candidate who has already shown she can win and govern.
This endorsement is also about the broader direction of the Democratic Party. A true win-everywhere strategy requires candidates who fit their districts. It requires Democrats who can compete in suburban, mixed, and Republican-leaning territory without treating moderation as betrayal.
Davids fits that model. Her challenger does not.
CIVPAC endorses Sharice Davids in the Democratic primary for Kansas’s 3rd Congressional District.
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