on july 23, 2019, kansas senate president susan wagle of wichita filed the paperwork with the federal elections commission necessary to run in the race for the vacant senate seat. she criticized kobach's employment in his controversial privately financed and constructed scheme to build the southern border wall. wagle supports the building of a federally designed, bid and funded wall while saying kobach's group undermines federal involvement. "we don’t need some rogue organization going out and building the wall."