The Democratic Senate victories in Texas and Kansas on Tuesday night were about more than just turning two red states blue — which, to be sure, is historic enough. They also signal the rise of a new kind of Democratic politics in the late Trump era — a more explicitly religious one. In Texas, James Talarico, the Presbyterian seminarian, was beating Republican state attorney general Ken Paxton by 20 points at the time of the call. And in Kansas, which hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate in nearly a century, the Rev. Adam Hamilton, the chief pastor of the state’s largest church,...
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