Cindy Holscher Wins Governor’s Race In Kansas, Extending Dems’ Wave Of Victories

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Democrat Cindy Holscher has been elected Kansas’ next governor, fending off Republican Ty Masterson to keep the office in her party’s hands and extend a massive wave of Democratic…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democrat Cindy Holscher has been elected Kansas’ next governor, fending off Republican Ty Masterson to keep the office in her party’s hands and extend a massive wave of Democratic victories across the country.

Democrats had already secured a majority of governorships in the U.S. for the first time in two decades, even prior to the narrow win in Kansas, where Holscher had already declared victory following Tuesday’s midterm elections. The Associated Press did not call the race until Thursday.

Holscher, a state senator, promised to halt new data centers and overcame a flood of money that Republicans poured behind Masterson, the president of the GOP-controlled state Senate. She will succeed outgoing Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat who was term-limited.

“Kansans have sent a clear message that they want to keep our state moving forward,” Holscher said in a video posted online Tuesday, two days before the race was called. “The work of preparing to lead has already begun.”

Masterson remains the Kansas Senate’s top Republican leader. Before the race was called, he promised to keep fighting to cut property taxes — his biggest campaign promise — and for safer communities and better schools.

The political tailwinds helping Holscher also pushed U.S. Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton, pastor of the nation’s largest United Methodist church, to Democrats’ first victory in a Senate race in Kansas since 1932.

In another big victory for Kansas Democrats, Chris Mann ousted state Attorney General Kris Kobach, a champion of strict voter ID laws who served as vice chair of President Donald Trump’s commission on election fraud in 2017.

Masterson had reasons for optimism after emerging from a contentious primary in August with Trump’s endorsement. For 60 years, when a Kansas governor has retired or been term-limited, the other party’s nominee has won the next election.

The Republican Governors Association poured $19 million into television and digital advertising, according to the…

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