Kansas elected a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in nearly a century, as pastor Adam Hamilton defeated GOP Sen. Roger Marshall.
Mr. Hamilton, 62, is a Methodist pastor and former Republican who ran his campaign as a centrist Democrat willing to work across the aisle.
He is the first Democrat elected to the Senate in Kansas since 1932.
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President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance both held rallies in Kansas designed to boost GOP turnout for Mr. Marshall, but their efforts fell short as Republicans were losing races in red territory across the nation.
In addition to falling victim to the national environment that favored Democrats, Mr. Marshall had to fight against attacks about suing patients he served as an OBGYN doctor for medical debt, some of whom were arrested.
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