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.”

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…

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 […]

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

Democrats won or came astonishingly close in states where Republicans usually dominate, from Texas, Ohio and Kansas to Iowa, Louisiana and South Carolina. Here’s why the Democratic wave exceeded expectations,

For the first time in a decade, election predictions far exceeded public expectations. What pollsters anticipated as a blue wave billowed into a blue tsunami. Wins that held ground for already blue seats eased nerves, and the flips of swing states like Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio energized the blue base. But red-belt-busting wins in Republican strongholds like Texas, South Carolina and Kansas alongside pending races in Alaska and...

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.