{"id":80877,"date":"2026-11-04T02:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/adam-hamilton-wins-in-kansas-to-become-states-first-democrat-in-senate-since-1932\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T02:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:55:14","slug":"adam-hamilton-wins-in-kansas-to-become-states-first-democrat-in-senate-since-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/adam-hamilton-wins-in-kansas-to-become-states-first-democrat-in-senate-since-1932\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Hamilton wins in Kansas to become state\u2019s first Democrat in Senate since 1932"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor clinches victory over incumbent Roger Marshall in state that emerged as unexpected battleground this year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/03\/midterm-election-results-live-updates\">US midterm elections \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/nov\/03\/midterm-elections-full-results-senate-house-governor-races\">Track live results from all 50 states<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adam Hamilton has clinched a historic victory in the US Senate race in Kansas, fueling the country\u2019s Democratic takeover of Congress as voters in key battleground states expressed frustration with Donald Trump. It\u2019s the first time a Democrat has been elected to represent Kansas in the Senate since 1932.<\/p>\n<p>With his victory speech, Hamilton, a longtime pastor, transformed a crowded hotel ballroom into his own congregation, his podium into a pulpit. Speaking at a hotel in Overland Park, he recited Bible passages and the parable of Good Samaritan in his address.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/03\/adam-hamilton-roger-marshall-kansas-senate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor clinches victory over incumbent Roger Marshall in state that emerged as unexpected battleground this year US midterm elections \u2013 live updates Track live results from all 50 states Adam Hamilton has clinched a historic victory in the US Senate race in Kansas, fueling the country\u2019s Democratic takeover of Congress as voters in key battleground &#8230; <a title=\"Adam Hamilton wins in Kansas to become state\u2019s first Democrat in Senate since 1932\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/adam-hamilton-wins-in-kansas-to-become-states-first-democrat-in-senate-since-1932\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Adam Hamilton wins in Kansas to become state\u2019s first Democrat in Senate since 1932\">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-80877","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\/80877","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=80877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}