The GOP representative at war, Kevin Yoder, could be the most spectacular attack of the year

Representative Kevin Yoder (R-Kansas) has a lot of political problems.

The increasing probability that he will lose his candidacy for a fifth term probably explains why he complied with a remarkably hypocritical and laughable line of attack against his Democratic opponent, Sharice Davids, just days before the November 6 elections.

Yoder, 42, was elected to Congress during the 2010 Tea Party wave, fueled by anger against President Barack Obama, who won a previously Democratic seat by nearly 20 percentage points. But this year, many voters in Kansas' 3rd congressional district (including the western suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri) are feeling the same dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump and his policies. So, with polls showing that he is lagging behind, Yoder has denounced his independent good faith and his willingness to stand up to Trump.

But in an interview with the Kansas City Star on Saturday, Yoder went further and said that his opponent – who is, again, a democrat – is little able to stand up to Trump because she technically worked under her administration at one point.

"What in her balance sheet tells us that she would stand up against President Trump when she would work for him?" Yoder said in his article. "She worked for the agenda. I just think it sounds like a rather weak promise … when she has already had the chance to do it and she has not done it. "

Davids was a member of the White House Ministry of Transportation from August 2016 (while Obama was still president) to August 2017 (seven months after the beginning of Trump's presidency). She was anything but a senior official with the power to change policies.

Indeed, his work was a non-partisan position that gave young Americans the opportunity to gain experience in public service. It is therefore difficult to see how she could have done anything to "stand up" to Trump, especially since at the time she was working in the Department of Transport, the agency had been shielded from any controversy over the White House policy.

Davids, 38, is a veteran of mixed martial arts. Deb Haaland, Democrat of New Mexico, aims to become the first Amerindian woman to sit in Congress.

Davids' platform includes expanding access to health care, strengthening gun control and opposing Trump's tax breaks, all of which Yoder marched alongside the president.

A recent poll conducted by the New York Times and Siena College found that Yoder was 19 points behind Davids.