The quiet brilliance of Adam Hamilton’s campaign

Mr. Hamilton, the pastor of the largest Methodist church in the country, conveyed a happy warrior vibe, his communication skills honed by decades in the pulpit.

Blue Kansas? Really?! Yes.

Remarkably, Adam Hamilton’s victory over the incumbent Republican senator Roger Marshall became not only possible but likely as Election Day neared, even though the last time a Democrat won a Senate election in Kansas was 1932, in Franklin Roosevelt’s Great Depression landslide.

True, Kansas has elected Democratic governors and has one now. And, yes, the collapse of President Trump’s popularity and the standing of the party that bows to him played a big role in this result.

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