{"id":80962,"date":"2026-11-05T15:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T20:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/deep-red-kansas-votes-for-change-as-patience-wears-thin-with-trump-the-economy-is-really-taking-a-beating\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T15:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T20:55:32","slug":"deep-red-kansas-votes-for-change-as-patience-wears-thin-with-trump-the-economy-is-really-taking-a-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/deep-red-kansas-votes-for-change-as-patience-wears-thin-with-trump-the-economy-is-really-taking-a-beating\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep-red Kansas votes for change as patience wears thin with Trump: \u2018The economy is really taking a beating\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bills have soared in rural state buffeted by tariffs and war in Iran \u2013 and Democrat Adam Hamilton\u2019s stunning upset shows how deep economic frustrations run<\/p>\n<p>Linda Olson always does her homework before voting \u2013 a trait she inherited from a family invested, and interested, in politics. Her father was a photographer who took portraits of political leaders in Washington, while her grandparents were farmers who cared deeply about their industry.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Olson\u2019s research led her to Donald Trump. She trusted that the then-former president would improve their economic realities in Junction City, Kansas \u2013 where she was born and raised \u2013 if he returned to the White House.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/05\/kansas-voters-trump-republicans-dispatch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bills have soared in rural state buffeted by tariffs and war in Iran \u2013 and Democrat Adam Hamilton\u2019s stunning upset shows how deep economic frustrations run Linda Olson always does her homework before voting \u2013 a trait she inherited from a family invested, and interested, in politics. Her father was a photographer who took portraits &#8230; <a title=\"Deep-red Kansas votes for change as patience wears thin with Trump: \u2018The economy is really taking a beating\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/deep-red-kansas-votes-for-change-as-patience-wears-thin-with-trump-the-economy-is-really-taking-a-beating\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Deep-red Kansas votes for change as patience wears thin with Trump: \u2018The economy is really taking a beating\u2019\">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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80962","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\/80962","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=80962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}