The fact that Donald Trump was here at all said more about a looming electoral disaster facing his Republican party next month than anything contained in his dark and discursive 98-minute stump speech. On Monday, amid raucous chants of “USA! USA!”, the president held his first campaign rally in Kansas for eight years. No Democrat has won a US Senate seat in this ruby-red state since 1932, the year Herbert Hoover was president, Amelia Earhart was...

Republicans' biggest increase was Congressional District 4, which includes Wichita.

If you turn on the television this month in Kansas, commercial breaks are dominated by political ads, especially the hotly contested race for U.S. Senate.

Kansas, long an afterthought in federal elections, could be an unlikely linchpin to Senate control. But many voters have long ties to the Republican Party.

Democrats are running surprisingly competitive races in traditionally Republican territory across the country this midterm election cycle, and it's putting GOP winning streaks at risk that stretch as far back as the 1930s. Why it matters: Democrats hope ending political droughts in states such as Kansas, Texas and South Carolina will help make inroads in what has long been off-limits territory. Kansas - 1932 Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) is...