There was no love lost between term-limited Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and gubernatorial hopeful Cindy Holscher during the Democratic primary, when Kelly supported a different Johnson County state senator.

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas—The whole improbable “leading from the middle” campaign of Kansas Pastor Adam Hamilton, who switched parties in January to run against Republican Sen. Roger Marshall as a Democrat, only began to get national notice recently, after the president started freaking out about the polls he said were rubbish. But inside the state, the turn from “good thing Adam believes in miracles” to “you know, I think he could do this” happened...

Election Day ushered in a series of extraordinary results in Republican-led Kansas and Missouri.

But even on a night filled with remarkable results, the victories of James Talarico in Texas and Adam Hamilton in Kansas stood apart. It’s not simply that a Texas Senate seat went Democratic for the first time since 1988,

Populist messages and populist candidates won. Last night, voters delivered a stunning repudiation of Donald Trump, his Republican congressional enablers, and his reign of chaos, corruption, and calamity. Democrats won Senate seats in Texas, South and North Carolina, Kansas (for…

South Carolina, Ohio, and Kansas are some of the states where a Democratic candidate has defeated an incumbent Republican senator.

Last night’s results were a receipt, not a mystery.Democrats took control of both the House and the Senate.They flipped the Texas Senate seat (James Talarico over Ken Paxton) and the governor’s office, won a Kansas Senate seat for the first time since 1932, and took South Carolina with Annie Andrews defeating Darline Graham Nordone.Iowa, North Carolina (Roy Cooper over Trump-backed Michael Whatley), Ohio, and others followed.Trump’s hand-picked...