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Megachurch pastor rolls to victory in Kansas and could become state's first Democrat elected to Senate in nearly a CENTURY
The Daily Mail ^ | August 4, 2026 | VICTORIA CHURCHILL

Posted on 08/04/2026 7:53:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Adam Hamilton has won the Democratic nomination for the US Senate in Kansas.

Hamilton, a political outsider who works as a megachurch pastor and author, was selected as the nominee on Tuesday evening shortly after polls closed.

GOP leaders are working to send incumbent Republican Roger Marshall back to the Senate from a state typically seen as a conservative stronghold, but currently has a Democrat in the governor's office.

1932 was the last time Democrats won a US Senate election in Kansas, but the state's current governor, Democrat Laura Kelly, won in 2018 and 2022.

As results rolled in Tuesday night, over a quarter of Republicans came out to vote against Marshall, instead choosing to support his challenger, Pond Naramore.

Hamilton beat out a crowded field in the Democratic primary, besting 10 other candidates.

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1 posted on 08/04/2026 7:53:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

What’s the matter with Kansas?


2 posted on 08/04/2026 7:54:48 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

They’re using the same playbook from Georgia—Senator Raphael Warnock is a Pastor.


3 posted on 08/04/2026 7:59:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

He could but he won’t be


4 posted on 08/04/2026 8:00:56 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Has pence endorsed him yet?


5 posted on 08/04/2026 8:02:55 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

How far we’ve fallen : a “Pastor” kneels before the party of Infant Murder.


6 posted on 08/04/2026 8:03:10 PM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

The matter with Kansas is that they are Kansans… stubborn, always right, adamant…environmentalists and not conservationists…make-do-get-by, cheap…. Even their own institutions fight to the end (K-State v. KU). But they will be the new home of the KC Chiefs so they must be doing something right.


7 posted on 08/04/2026 8:04:30 PM PDT by MHT
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To: MinorityRepublican

Somebody wins the Democrat primary every election cycle.

Doesn’t mean they’re going to win, and in Kansas it has meant they won’t for almost the last hundred years.


8 posted on 08/04/2026 8:05:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel First. America... who cares?)
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To: MinorityRepublican
article "works as a megachurch pastor and author"

That is one step below a whore.


9 posted on 08/04/2026 8:08:49 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
What’s the matter with Kansas?

Primaries result in the selection of Democrat and Republican candidates.

Are you suggesting that Kansas shouldn't have a Democrat primary?

10 posted on 08/04/2026 8:09:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel First. America... who cares?)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

What’s the matter with Kansas?


Lawrence and Manhattan.


11 posted on 08/04/2026 8:11:44 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Just because one foreign media outlet is cheerleading for the dem candidate does not mean he is going to win in November.

Marshall should to well in November. Kansas has been a very quiet race this cycle. Not like Maine or Texas.

Republican
Roger Marshall 217,395 79.20%
Pond Naramore 57,072 20.80%
Total 274,467

(Est. remaining 79,000)

Democrat
Adam Hamilton 71,341 36.00%
Christy Davis 27,668 13.90%
Noah Taylor 25,276 12.70%
Anne Parelkar 14,961 7.50%
Erik Murray 13,843 7.00%
Patrick Schmidt 11,909 6.00%
Sandy Neumann 11,368 5.70%
Jason Hart 9,672 4.90%
Damon Anderson 5,525 2.80%
Kevin Latz 3,739 1.90%
Michael Soetaert 3,068 1.70%
Total 198,370
(Est. remaining 26,000)

Dems had a full field to bring out folks, yet Hamilton only got 36%.


12 posted on 08/04/2026 8:13:44 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Odd question coming from a state that allows legalized large scale gambling and prostitution.


13 posted on 08/04/2026 8:19:28 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Winning with 36% is hardly “Rolling to victory”. Not sure how much the liberal Ds will having a Pastor as a candidate.
Marshall will pick up most of 20% that went to his opponent in November.


14 posted on 08/04/2026 8:24:20 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: dfwgator

My sympathies. That is like Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Ann Arbor in Michigan. It us sad that rural areas have no voice. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Only property owners were supposed to vote.


15 posted on 08/04/2026 8:28:52 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
In Texas the Dems are all a-throb over a "pastor": gay boy Talarico.

16 posted on 08/04/2026 8:28:57 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The dems did a focus group and learned that pastors and veterans are still viewed with respect, thus...............


17 posted on 08/04/2026 8:30:03 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: Steven Scharf

“Dems had a full field to bring out folks, yet Hamilton only got 36%.”

Beyond that, the Dems had a MUCH LOWER turnout.


18 posted on 08/04/2026 8:30:48 PM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well said Pluribus!


19 posted on 08/04/2026 8:32:21 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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20 posted on 08/04/2026 8:33:37 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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