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David Smith in Park City, Kansas

In ruby-red Kansas, Trump contemplates the possibility of a Democratic win in the state

Donald Trump he walks off stage during a campaign rally at the Heartland Credit Union Arena in Park City, Kansas
Donald Trump he walks off stage during a campaign rally at the Heartland Credit Union Arena in Park City, Kansas. Photograph: Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images

The fact that Donald Trump was here at all said more about a looming electoral disaster facing his Republican party next month than anything contained in his dark and discursive 98-minute stump speech.

On Monday, amid raucous chants of “USA! USA!”, the president held his first campaign rally in Kansas for eight years. No Democrat has won a US Senate seat in this ruby-red state since 1932, the year Herbert Hoover was president, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the Nazis became the biggest party in the German Reichstag.

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