The GOP's nightmare scenario became a reality in Kansas on Election Night, where an insurgent Democratic newcomer toppled a Republican incumbent for the first time in nearly a century.Megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton is projected to defeat first-term Sen.Roger Marshall, R-Kan., in one of the more unexpectedly close and brutal races during this midterm election cycle, according to Fox News Decision Desk. Hamilton’s win in the Sunflower State marks the first time Kansans have sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932.Marshall’s campaign sputtered in the late stages of the race, giving Hamilton an opening to peel off a large number of independent and rural voters — and it also served a bruising blow to Senate Republicans who are trying to cling to their slim majority in the upper chamber.MAINE, KANSAS SENATE RACES NECK AND NECK AS DEMOCRATS LEAD IN TEXAS, MICHIGAN, POLL SHOWSAdam Hamilton, left, ended nearly a century of Republican Senate dominance in Kansas by defeating Roger Marshall in a brutal midterm battle.
(Getty Images)Democratic strategist Mally Smith told Fox News Digital that Adam Hamilton was the perfect candidate to run in Kansas. "He was able to bring Republicans, Independents and Democrats together to pull a stunning upset.The combination of a blue environment, a scandal-plagued incumbent, and a strong Democrat like Hamilton made this upset possible," said Smith.Though for months their race was not on the radar of national Democrats or Republicans, in the waning weeks Marshall acknowledged that he was running for his political life as headwinds battered Republican incumbents across the country."I think that, you know, I'm not a political expert, I'm a physician, but if we lose Kansas, I don't see how we keep control of the Senate," Marshall told Fox News Digital in an interview before the election."And that's why a vote for Adam Hamilton is a vote for Chuck Schumer and Democrat control of the Senate," he continued.
"It’s that simple."DEM SENATE...