Pastor turns Kansas blue after 94 years

At a chapel in Lindsborg, Kansas, Adam Hamilton began singing a hymn. The audience joined in. The Methodist pastor was seeking votes for the US Senate, carrying a pocket Bible and a chunk of salt, a reminder of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.Hamilton, a former Republican running as a Democrat, offered a gentle pitch in a bitter campaign. “Most of us... are not enemies. If we’re liberals or conservatives, we just see the world differently,” he said.There were signs that Republicans were listening. Bruce Bratman, who had voted for Trump three times, said he was knocking on doors for Hamilton. At another stop, retired Kroger chief executive Dave Dillon, a registered Republican, endorsed the Democrat.Hamilton defeated Republican Senator Roger Marshall, ending a Democratic Senate drought stretching to 1932.His campaign offered one answer to a difficult question: how to ask people to change their vote without asking them to change who they are.You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.