In another stunning upset from Tuesday’s midterms, Adam Hamilton will become the first Democratic member of the Senate elected from Kansas since 1932.
As of early Wednesday morning, Hamilton was leading Republican Sen. Roger Marshall with 50.9 percent of the vote as 99 percent of ballots were counted, according to the Associated Press.
Decision Desk HQ called the race at 10:48 p.m. Eastern.
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Hamilton, the pastor and founder of the largest Methodist congregation in Kansas, was considered a long-shot candidate even in a year that favored Democrats.
Marshall, who was seeking his second term, was so confident that his seat was safe that The Kansas City Star reported he wasn’t paying campaign staff.
However, that also raised questions about whether he was using his congressional staff to campaign for him — which would mean taxpayer dollars were going toward his campaign — in what was one of a number of issues the Democrats seized upon in the race.
As an agricultural state, Kansas was hit hard by tariffs and diesel prices, which Hamilton emphasized in his campaign.
He was especially successful in the Kansas City suburbs and in Topeka and Wichita, winning majorities in each of those areas.
This article originally appeared on The Western Journal and is reposted with permission.
