He ran as an independent to represent Kansas in the United States Senate in the 2014 election, earning 42.5 percent of the vote and losing to incumbent U.S.

[4] In the November 6 general election, he received approximately 6.5% of the vote, 1.5% more than the victory margin of Democrat Laura Kelly over Republican Kris Kobach.

[15] Orman remained at Kansas City Power & Light for six more years and grew KLT Energy Services from less than $100 million in revenues to almost $1 billion before leaving the company in 2002.

Acquiring Fitness First would help expand Combat's product offerings and grow the company, Orman said in an interview with Kansas City Business Journal.

[19] Instead of selling to a competitor which would have led to layoffs and moving operations out of Lenexa, KS, Orman said the sale "allowed us to ultimately reward the people who had been so instrumental in helping the business be successful.

[19] In June 1997 FRM Associates, of which Greg Orman was a partner,[20] purchased a building that houses The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

[21] He has professional and personal ties to former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta,[22][23] and served as his designated representative on the board of New Silk Route, a private equity fund, from April 2013 until March 2014.

[24][25] When Gupta was convicted of insider trading in 2012,[26][27] Orman said that "He is a friend of mine, he made a huge mistake, and he's paying the price for it.

In 2006, while he was considering running as a Democrat for the Senate, he gave $1,000 to Harry Reid and $4,600 to the 2008 presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

"[33] Orman also said that later attempts by Republicans to repeal the law were impractical because Obama remained in office with veto power.

[37] After the election, final fundraising reports showed that groups supporting Orman had received $1.5 million from Senate Majority PAC, run by former advisors to Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid, $1 million from Independent New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and donations from GOP donors Peter Ackerman, Greg Penner, Jeffrey Binder and John Burbank.

[42][43] In the event that Orman held the tiebreaking vote in the Senate, he stated that he would ask both parties to commit to issues including immigration and tax reform and caucus with whichever agreed.

Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul -- a galaxy of the GOP's top stars -- trotted through what is often described as a flyover state.

Governor Sam Brownback and some self-imposed mistakes clearly helped Orman, yet the campaign deserves full accolades for having the second highest PAAR score from both parties.

He supports "broad tax reform", is concerned about the impact entitlement spending is having on the federal deficit, and agrees with some of the ideas of former Republican House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan.

[54][55] In an op-ed with Real Clear Politics Orman wrote, "I am a gun owner, and I certainly don't want to impede those rights.

"[56] In 2014 while running for the U.S. Senate, Orman told the Lawrence Journal-World his views on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, saying that, "I opposed the ACA (in 2009) because it did nothing to fix a broken system.

But instead of playing political games with this issue as Republicans and Democrats in Congress have done, I believe we need to focus on what Washington can actually do to ensure that health care is affordable for all Americans.

"A ranked-choice system would force major party candidates to broaden their appeal to compete for second-choice votes.

In the book Orman described his view on how hyper-partisanship, division, and a win-at-all-costs environment in Washington have created a toxic culture of self-interest that has left average Americans behind.

He said, "[Orman] argues passionately and convincingly that a third force is necessary to challenge the Republican-Democrat "duopoly" that sustains a status quo of laws, regulations, subsidies and loopholes paid for by special-interest contributions to both parties.

"[62] Charles Wheelan, a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College and contributing writer for U.S. News & World Report wrote in his review, "I hope this will be the first shot in a sustained assault on the broken two-party system.

"[63][64] Orman filed to run as an independent in the 2018 Kansas governor's race with state senator John Doll.

Ultimately, only 323 signatures were deemed ineligible by the state Objections Board and Orman was granted ballot access for the November election.

The Objections Board consisted of statewide Republican officials, Attorney General Derek Schmidt, Governor Jeff Colyer, and Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

[4] There was some media attention in the early stages of the general election because additional polling showed Orman outperforming Kelly in a hypothetical head-to-head showdown against Kobach.

Polling done by Triton Research and reported on by the Topeka Capital Journal showed Orman would beat Kobach in a head-to-head race by 13 percentage points, while Democrat Kelly was in a dead heat.

[70] Orman suspended active fundraising efforts and elected to stop running TV advertisements in the Kansas City market by Labor Day.

[4] In a poll conducted on September 12–13, Orman, at 9% trailed Kobach and Democratic state senator Laura Kelly, each by about 30 points.

Among others, Orman wrote, "Because I believe the most important issue facing us as Americans is our destructive and self-perpetuating two-party system, I was not willing to join it in the service of personal advancement.