Kansas and Missouri Democrats score stunning wins in ‘generational' election
When the Rev. Adam Hamilton stepped up to a podium on Tuesday after becoming the first Democratic senator elected in Kansas in nearly a century, he cast the moment as a historic repudiation. “I think I got elected because Kansans were saying ‘we’re tired of the bullies, we’re tired of the chaos, we’re tired of harming people,’” the Democratic pastor told a crowd of supporters gathered in Overland Park. Across the country, a national blue wave eclipsed expectations Tuesday night and swept Democrats to stunning victories in states like Texas and South Carolina. And on both sides of the Kansas City metro, Election Day was no different, ushering in a series of extraordinary results in Republican-led Kansas and Missouri. “This is a generational, maybe a multi-generational election. You’ve got to go back to 1974 to see (an election) quite like this,” said John Hancock, a former chair of the Missouri Republican Party, referring to the post-Watergate midterms. In Kansas, Hamilton made history , securing a Democratic Senate seat for the first time since the 1930s. Results also favored Democrats in statewide races for governor and attorney general and the party scored key victories in a slew of state legislature contests,
