Republicans on Wednesday saw trouble for their congressional majorities in the results of an unexpectedly competitive special election to fill a conservative Kansas House seat.
The GOP still won, with Ron Estes defeating Democrat James Thompson by 8.3 percentage points. But worrisome was the margin. President Trump won the district by 27 points in November.
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