It’s been nearly a century since Kansas voters sent a Democrat to the Senate.
But Adam Hamilton, a prominent pastor, is looking to make that jump as Republicans grow more and more unsettled about incumbent GOP Sen. Roger Marshall’s chances in the heartland.
“It’s all or nothing in a sense, because the story is that after 96 years, a Democrat could win a Senate seat in Kansas, but it also could be that there’s a reason for it not happening in 96 years, that Marshall pulls it out simply because it’s so difficult,” said Bob Beatty, professor of political science at Washburn University in Topeka.
Elections analysts have moved the Kansas Senate race to the left in recent weeks as polls indicate that, like elsewhere around the country, President Trump’s low approval rating is dragging down Republican candidates. Cook Political Report and Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia both shifted the race to “Lean Republican” from “Likely Republican” last week.
Kansas is generally a red state, although it has sometimes elected moderate Democratic governors. Trump won Kansas in 2024 by 16 points. But his approval rating in the state now hovers around 40 percent, while Hamilton polls slightly ahead of Marshall at 45 percent to 43 percent, according to a recent Emerson College/Nexstar poll. That mirrors many other red states — like nearby Iowa — where Republican candidates are facing negative public opinion about tariffs, the war in Iran and the resulting high prices.
Beatty said Hamilton is a uniquely strong Democratic contender to capitalize on that national trend. Hamilton has never held political office but has been the pastor of a network of United Methodist churches he founded in the Kansas City metro area for 36 years...
MAGAt Marshall also has a documented history of suing low-income patients when he was an ob/gyn, as the article and this great Hamilton ad points out:
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
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If Hamilton flips this deep red seat, it will truly be a blue tsunami mid-term election.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz had a difficult time on Sunday articulating what exactly President Donald Trump is still trying to accomplish in Iran, attempting to push the narrative that the U.S. is trying to destroy the country’s nuclear capabilities despite the president repeatedly claiming they are already “obliterated.”
“We know that we obliterated their ability to enrich in a number of these facilities. But we also know they moved and dispersed highly enriched uranium,” Waltz told NBC’s “Meet the Press” after Kristen Welker aired a clip of Trump himself claiming the U.S. has already addressed Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
On Saturday, Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days and end the war, saying, “They want to make a deal … because they’re losing so badly.” Asked about the rejection, Waltz defended the rejection Sunday, telling CNN’s “State of the Union” Iran was “asking for everything up front” and that Trump is “just not confident that the Iranians are coming in good faith.” {Ed.: if there's anyone who knows about bad faith, it's the Malignant Fascist and his lickspittle regime.]
During his speech in the U.N. General Assembly, Trump threatened to “annihilate” Iran. A recent Wall Street Journal report also says the president is expected to resume bombing Iran following the midterm elections. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told “Meet the Press” that Iran is prepared for a resumption of aggression.
“We stand firm in the face of any new aggression, even if it comes to a doomsday war,” Araghchi said. “But at the same time, we stand ready for diplomacy. It is up to President Trump to choose.”
Operation Epic Quagmire -- a mindless war started by a mindless moron with disastrous consequences for our country and the world, and no end in sight.
Eight gunmen with AK-47 rifles and pistols shot patrons outside a bar and then moved inside to continue their deadly rampage, killing at least 17 people Saturday in one of three mass shootings in South Africa in the space of six days this week.
A total of at least 38 people were killed and nearly 30 were wounded in the separate late-night shootings in impoverished townships near South Africa’s three biggest cities. Two of the massacres happened in the space of a few hours late Saturday night and in the predawn hours of Sunday.
South Africa’s mass shootings often differ from lone gunman mass shootings seen in the United States and other countries. The shootings in South Africa are mostly connected to criminality, rather than ideological motive or personal grievance. [snip]
Authorities say many of the mass shootings are linked to criminal gangs fighting turf wars or using violence to establish control over communities and areas.
Saturday night’s mass shooting at the bar near Johannesburg occurred in an area where residents said there was a history of violence by illegal mining gangs. The acting provincial commissioner said police were investigating a possible lead that the shooting was a revenge attack as one of the victims was connected to a previous shooting.
Illegal mining gangs are notorious for terrorizing communities in the gold-mining areas around the Johannesburg region, where they are involved in the lucrative illicit gold trade. In other parts of the country, including Cape Town, gangs involved in selling illegal drugs or extortion rackets have been responsible for mass shootings...
Until these over-the-top mass shootings, it's likely few people had heard of this scope of gang violence in South Africa. It's been associated with gang violence in Mexico and South America involving drug cartels for a long time, but obviously it's a problem that spans the world. And everywhere, the innocent often pay with their lives along with the criminals.
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