{"id":80229,"date":"2026-10-20T05:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/kansas-senate-race-on-a-knife-edge-as-democrats-aim-to-end-94-years-of-republican-dominance\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T10:55:09","slug":"kansas-senate-race-on-a-knife-edge-as-democrats-aim-to-end-94-years-of-republican-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/kansas-senate-race-on-a-knife-edge-as-democrats-aim-to-end-94-years-of-republican-dominance\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Senate race on a knife edge as Democrats aim to end 94 years of Republican dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas has not sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932 \u2013 does Adam Hamilton have the courage, brain and heart to cause an extraordinary upset?<\/p>\n<p>Just two years after Donald Trump won Kansas by 16 points in his fight to regain the White House, Republicans in the state are scrambling to retain their dominance. The battle for one of its two seats in the US Senate is too close to call, setting the stage for a potentially extraordinary upset.<\/p>\n<p>Some recent polls even put Democrat Adam Hamilton on course for a historic victory. Kansans have not sent a representative of the party to the US Senate since 1932.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/20\/kansas-senate-race-democrat-adam-hamilton\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas has not sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932 \u2013 does Adam Hamilton have the courage, brain and heart to cause an extraordinary upset? Just two years after Donald Trump won Kansas by 16 points in his fight to regain the White House, Republicans in the state are scrambling to retain their dominance. &#8230; <a title=\"Kansas Senate race on a knife edge as Democrats aim to end 94 years of Republican dominance\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/kansas-senate-race-on-a-knife-edge-as-democrats-aim-to-end-94-years-of-republican-dominance\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kansas Senate race on a knife edge as Democrats aim to end 94 years of Republican dominance\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}