‘I’ll feel better about myself’: Kansas Republican makes second U.S. Senate run against an incumbent

Outsider Republican Arch Pond Naramore is challenging U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall in the Aug. 4 primary. Naramore wants to win, but he's been in this spot before.

By: Tim Carpenter

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: July 6, 2026

Words: 983

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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LAWRENCE — In his youth, Arch Naramore had to leave Ottawa University after his stash of pot embarrassingly fell from his hat during a campus church service for students.

He looked back on that transfer to the University of Kansas as fortuitous, because he found a home in Lawrence that has remained a sanctuary for an independent, free spirit such as himself.

In an awkward public spectacle decades later, Naramore jumped into the Republican primary …

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