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GOP Senate chief admits deep-red state is slipping out of reach
What happened
RawStory reports that Sen. Tim Scott, chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, conceded that Kansas’s Senate race was “more competitive” than he wanted, while still predicting Republican Sen. Roger Marshall would defeat Democrat Adam Hamilton on Nov. 3. The reporting does not establish that Kansas is out of Republican reach; it shows that a historically safe Republican seat had become unusually competitive.
A Wedgewood poll placed Hamilton at 50 percent and Marshall at 48 percent, while the Cook Political Report shifted the race from “likely Republican” to “lean…
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