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Politics
Katie Bernard, Daniel Desrochers

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly beat the odds to win reelection. Has she become a national model for Democrats?

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly was statistically the most vulnerable incumbent governor in the nation heading into the 2022 election.

She was the only Democrat seeking reelection in a state former President Donald Trump carried in 2020. An overwhelmingly Republican electorate, Kansas voters not only sought to keep Trump in the White House, they did so by a 15 point margin.

Her narrow victory over Attorney General Derek Schmidt, which came on the heels of Kansans’ decisive vote in favor of abortion rights, has now placed the 72-year-old governor and self described policy wonk in the national spotlight.

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