LAWRENCE, Kan. — Paul Davis says he’s frustrated, but he doesn’t really show it.

Sitting at a wooden desk in his campaign office in downtown Lawrence, the bespectacled Democratic congressional hopeful matter-of-factly states that he’s irked by Republican efforts to tie him to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. But he quickly pivoted to money in politics.

“It’s frustrating because you have a super PAC that’s funded by billionaires that don’t live here,” Davis said. “And whenever that happens, I think the voices of everyday Kansans get drowned out.”

“I stated on the very first day that I got into this campaign that I wasn’t going to support Nancy Pelosi,” he later said in an interview here Monday. “And what they are implying is directly contrary to what my position is.”

Davis faces Republican Steve Watkins in November in Kansas’ 2nd District, a seat that opened after GOP incumbent Lynn Jenkins announced her retirement. And Democrats believe their nominee has put the seat in play this year.