Rodger Marshall is playing catch-up as he races to avoid becoming the first person to lose a Senate contest to a Democrat in Kansas in nearly a century. He faces the most serious challenger for a Kansas senator in over a decade as his party stares down a grim environment under Donald Trump’s second term. National Republicans are pouring millions into the state to prop him up; national Democrats are responding in kind, and Democrat Adam Hamilton, a well-known United Methodist pastor, is suddenly flush with cash for the campaign’s homestretch. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/17/kansas-senate-roger-marshall-struggles-01122060