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Adam Hamilton becomes first Democrat elected to the US Senate from Kansas in 94 years
Hamilton defeated Sen. Roger Marshall after a campaign focused on his medical-bill lawsuits and Florida home, NBC News said.
- On Tuesday, Democratic Rev. Adam Hamilton defeated Republican Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansas, ending a 94-year Democratic drought in the state, according to NBC News and Decision Desk HQ projections.
- Marshall faced scrutiny after The New York Times reported he sued more than 700 patients over medical debts as low as $101, while Hamilton, a United Methodist minister, campaigned as a centrist first-time candidate who switched from Republican registration earlier this year.
- The contest shattered spending records with total ad spending surpassing $84 million. Hamilton invested roughly $16 million on ad buys, dwarfing Marshall's $6 million investment.
- Hamilton secured 53 percent of the vote against Marshall's 44.8 percent with 83 percent of votes counted, giving Democrats a crucial pickup in their fight for Senate control.
- Despite President Donald Trump rallying for Marshall near Wichita on October 19, the incumbent lost to Hamilton, whose moderate appeal attracted crossover Republican voters in a traditionally red state.
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The six-year-old, head of a large Methodist congregation, allowed the Democratic Party to win the seat of state senator for the first time since 1932.
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Pastor Adam Hamilton won the U.S. Senate race in Kansas, where in 1932 he had been elected the last Democrat as Senator. 94 years ago. On a night of surprises that took place with a vine and at a magnitude that surprised even the winning Democrats, one of the political shocks came...
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Democrats secured another seat in the US Senate on Tuesday when Adam Hamilton defeated incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall in the central state of Kansas, according to media projections.
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