Buried tidbits within the article:
Poll was from early June, so nearly three months old and conducted before both Kobach and Grissom entered the race.
The poll also showed a generic Republican beating a generic Democrat for Senate in Kansas, 44% to 36%—suggesting that Mr. Kobach underperformed the generic ballot.
Every single other Republican tested in a general election scenario led the Democrat by at least eight points.
The poll found Mr. Kobach's image rating underwater across the state, at 32% favorable vs. 50% unfavorable. And there was a strong intensity to voters' negative reactions to his image, with 39% strongly unfavorable toward Mr. Kobach vs. 15% strongly favorable. Among independent voters, his image rating was a net 24 percentage points weaker than President Trump’s.
Also notes that the poll contains a 150 oversample of likely GOP primary voters (indicating they have primary numbers they are not releasing).
