Today Explained, I'm Sean Ramos firm.
I live in Washington, D.C., along with my colleague Christian Paz from Vox, but he went to Kansas.
Christian, why Kansas?
I was on a mission.
Like a Mormon mission?
Let's go with Christian mission.
I was on a faith journey, actually.
Okay, okay.
I was hunting down a guy named Adam Hamilton.
He's a megachurch pastor.
He's a Methodist.
He started the state's largest church in the Kansas City suburbs, and he's running for Senate now as a Democrat.
President Trump won Kansas by more than 16 points in 2024. But in these midterms,
the sunflower state has become an unlikely battleground for a Senate seat.
Incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall is running neck and neck with Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton.
It is now quite possible that the Democrats have a better chance of winning in Kansas than they do in Maine.
It functions as a test case.
Can Democrats win back religious voters?
And if so, how do they do it?
On Today Explained from Vox.