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1 of 23 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Prairie Village, Kansas
STANDING IN FRONT OF A CROWD of roughly a hundred people on Friday evening, Adam Hamilton didn’t have the aura of a man whose entire life was about to be picked apart, whose political ambitions were set to be battered by millions of dollars of negative TV ads, whose campaign had become a vector of immodest hope for Democrats dreaming of an unfathomably successful midterm election.
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campaign → stand → election
Instead, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Kansas seemed calm, projecting an easy confidence as he stood on a hay bale.
Hamilton was addressing a block party of voters who had come to see him.
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who → seem → him
And as those voters helped themselves to beer and wine from coolers—as the evening chill kicked in and the kids kept busy roasting marshmallows on a Solo stove—he seemed to welcome the target now on his back.
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he → help → back
He informed the crowd that the Senate Republicans’ top super PAC had pulled its money out of North Carolina and was diverting it to Kansas.
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PAC → inform → Kansas
The state’s airwaves, he warned, would feature a blizzard of ads against him, starting maybe within a matter of hours.
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he → warn → hours
“They are afraid,” he said, his voice unshaken.
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voice → say → ?
Few Democrats would have imagined Kansas as a Senate battleground at the start of this cycle.
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Democrats → imagine → cycle
Even fewer would have picked Hamilton as a candidate Republicans would fear.
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Republicans → pick → candidate
But the 62-year-old founding pastor of the nearby Church of the Resurrection, the largest United Methodist congregation in the country, has become just that—combining an atypical political biography with a congenial on-the-trail approach to potentially unseat incumbent Roger Marshall.
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pastor → found → Marshall
The polls suggest it could very well happen.1
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it → suggest → ?
The question now is whether Hamilton peaked too early.
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Hamilton → peak → ?
With a month to go, Republicans are rushing resources to the state.
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Republicans → go → state
And even Hamilton acknowledged that he was entering a new phase of the campaign.
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he → acknowledge → campaign
Despite breaking fundraising records in Kansas, he told the crowd he still needed to raise millions more.
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he → break → millions
He didn’t hide the personal toll that the campaign was taking on his church, his community, and his family.
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campaign → hide → church
When I asked Hamilton about it, he was confident in a way that perhaps only someone who regularly draws thousands of people to his church pews can be, saying:
Nobody likes a paywall.
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Nobody → ask → paywall
But independent political reporting requires something that’s increasingly scarce: the time and resources to actually go find things out.
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that → require → things
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We → know → voters
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you → approach → work
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story → help → reporters
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subscription → get → Podcast
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who → help → membership
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