Marshall Says Losing Kansas Could Cost GOP 53-Seat Senate Majority as $4 Gas Tightens Race
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 27
Marshall Says Losing Kansas Could Cost GOP 53-Seat Senate Majority as $4 Gas Tightens Race
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 27
Summary
Roger Marshall said a Kansas loss could hand Democrats Senate control, casting his once-safe re-election bid as a race for the GOP’s 53-seat majority.
High fuel prices are central to the squeeze: Marshall said his polling fell after the Iran war, with gas near $4 and diesel above $6 across parts of Kansas.
Trump’s role cuts both ways for the incumbent. Marshall says he cannot win without MAGA turnout, but Kansas political scientists argue his close alignment with Trump is also driving moderates and independents toward Adam Hamilton.
Hamilton, a prominent megachurch pastor presenting himself as a moderate, has pushed a seat Republicans barely worried about into toss-up territory in a state that has not elected a Democratic senator since the Great Depression.