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No Democrat has won a Kansas Senate seat in a century. Can a megachurch pastor change that?
Conservatives call his sermons evidence he is too liberal, while Hamilton says he is a centrist focused on winning moderate voters.
- Adam Hamilton, senior pastor of the 25,000-member United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas, seeking to break his party's nearly century-long losing streak in the state.
- Running as a centrist, Hamilton promises not to evangelize from Washington while leveraging organizational skills honed since founding his church in 1990, appealing to both center-right churchgoers and secular liberals.
- Conservative opponents, including Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, have branded Hamilton a 'heretic' using edited sermon clips, claiming he rejected 'the central tenets of Christianity' regarding non-Christian salvation.
- Incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall criticized Hamilton as 'too woke for Kansas' and warned that a Democratic victory could shift Senate control, while Hamilton defends his candidacy as a calling to 'step into the arena.'
- Only a few ordained ministers have served as senators over the past 100 years, with Democrat Raphael Warnock of Georgia serving as the sole current example, underscoring the historic rarity of Hamilton's path.
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No Democrat has won a Kansas Senate seat in a century. Can a megachurch pastor change that?
Adam Hamilton is the founder of the nation's largest United Methodist church, and he's attempting to pull off an unusual balancing act in running as a Democrat for the U.S.
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