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.”

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.

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,

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 […]

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...

Kansas elected its first Democratic senator since George McGill, who was born the year Edison debuted his light bulb.

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon said White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and other political consultants should be “removed immediately” following the losses suffered by the GOP in the midterm elections. Democrats secured wins in battleground states across the country on Tuesday, flipping GOP-held seats in Texas, South Carolina, Iowa, Kansas and Ohio,…

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.

“Kansas, get ready to learn what a polycule is,” read one Tuesday night tweet. All in due time. Let Kansans rest up. (This includes the ethically nonmonogamous community in Lawrence.) Kansas must be exhausted. It swung left 21.06 points Tuesday. As everyone now knows, the state elected Adam Hamilton, a recent Democratic convert and founding pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the country, as its first Democratic U.S. senator since...