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Kansas GOP Hold Ends
Democratic pastor Adam Hamilton won Kansas’s Senate seat in the 2026 election, defeating Republican Roger Marshall and ending 94 years of Republican control of the seat. The result marks a historic breakthrough in a state that has voted for Republican presidential candidates since 1968, even though Donald Trump won it in 2024 with 57.2% of the vote, compared with Kamala Harris’s 41%. Hamilton, 62, ran a moderate campaign focused on the cost of living, health care, and reducing polarization. He benefited from earlier signs that some voters were willing to separate their party affiliation from their views on local issues: in 2022, about 59% of state voters rejected an amendment that would have allowed abortion restrictions to be tightened or abortion to be banned.
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