Kansas Senator-elect Adam Hamilton responds to President Trump making Stephen Miller his new chief of staff, telling Dana Bash, “I’m actually surprised that he did that, because the election was a repudiation of so much of what Trump has stood for, and I think so much of that was designed by Stephen Miller.”

In Kansas, Adam Hamilton beat Roger Marshall to become Kansas' first Democratic U.S. senator since before "The Wizard of Oz" was released in movie theaters in 1939. Trump could not have have done more in the past two years to undermine his party and its political standing if he'd purposely set out on a mission of self-sabotage.

Advertisement Adam Hamilton became the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate election in Kansas since the 1930s, unseating Senator Roger Marshall, an ally of President Trump’s. What is Mr. Hamilton’s profession?

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach has lost reelection, the Associated Press projected, denying him a second term as the state’s top lawyer. Kobach lost to Chris Mann, a former prosecutor and police officer who nearly beat him in 2024. Mann leads with 50.6 percent of the vote to Kobach’s 49.4 percent, or a lead of…

Prospective Governor-elect Holscher pledged many things during her campaigns, among them: property tax relief, fully funded public schools, and marijuana reform

Unofficial results show Republican state Rep. Pat Proctor of Leavenworth leading Overland Park Democrat Jennifer Day by 5,900 votes.

Sedgwick County election workers will begin the close-race audit for three Kansas races on Monday morning, the election commissioner confirmed with The Eagle. All 105 counties in Kansas are required to hand-count ballots cast in 10% of precincts when the margin between two candidates is within one percentage point of each other.

Dominick Williams dowilliams@kcstar.com Missouri Democrats flipped 16 House seats and 2 Senate seats. Kansas elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate and may elect Democrats statewide. Democrats are still the minority party in both states.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) won’t be the lone Senate Democrat defending the filibuster next year. Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor elected in Kansas on Tuesday, would vote to keep the 60-vote threshold intact, while former Gov. Roy Cooper, the senator-elect in North Carolina, hasn’t been quite so definitive but praised it recently as a firewall […]