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Rachel Leingang in Topeka

Kansas Senate race on a knife edge as Democrats aim to end 94 years of Republican dominance

Adam Hamilton, Kansas Senate candidate, stands outdoors in a plaid blazer before greenery
Adam Hamilton, who is running as the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Kansas. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Just two years after Donald Trump won Kansas by 16 points in his fight to regain the White House, Republicans in the state are scrambling to retain their dominance. The battle for one of its two seats in the US Senate is too close to call, setting the stage for a potentially extraordinary upset.

Some recent polls even put Democrat Adam Hamilton on course for a historic victory. Kansans have not sent a representative of the party to the US Senate since 1932.

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