How these pages work
The old campaign site kept an "issues" section at these addresses. The campaign's own text is not reproduced here. In its place, each page collects:
- What Davis said, with the date and the outlet that reported it, quoting a phrase or a sentence at most.
- The record, where a vote or filing shows it, mostly from his years in the Kansas House (2003 to 2015).
- The other side, meaning what his opponents, Sam Brownback in 2014 and Steve Watkins in 2018, and their allies said on the same subject.
Some topics are thinly sourced. Where we could find little beyond the campaign's own claims, the page says so rather than filling the gap.
Topics
- Tax reformOpposed the 2012 Kansas income tax cuts and the 2017 federal tax law, which he compared to them; opponents called him a tax raiser.
- Jobs and economyArgued in 2014 that the tax cuts had not delivered growth; named a bipartisan pair of former lieutenant governors as economic advisers.
- EducationMade restoring K-12 school funding the centerpiece of his 2014 race; Brownback's side said total education spending had gone up.
- Health careFavored keeping the popular parts of the Affordable Care Act and fixing the rest; Watkins favored repeal and a market-based system.
- ImmigrationBacked border security plus a path to citizenship and the Dream Act; opposed family separation. Watkins backed a border wall.
- Agriculture and rural KansasCriticized 2018 tariffs for hurting Kansas farmers; Watkins also opposed tariffs, as a matter of free-trade principle.
- National securityCampaign site stressed military resources and protecting elections from foreign interference; little independent reporting beyond that.
- VeteransHis campaign cited his legislative record on veterans' benefits; we found little independent reporting to check it against.
- Money in politicsCalled for a constitutional amendment against 'dark money'; his own race drew millions in outside spending on both sides.