<p>The president came out in support of Senator Roger Marshall, who is facing and unexpectedly strong challenge from Democrat Adam Hamilton </p><p>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.</p><p>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, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/19/amelia-earhart-purdue-expedition-clump-of-trees-nikumaroro-kiribati">Amelia Earhart</a> was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the Nazis became the biggest party in the German Reichstag.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/20/trump-kansas-rally-us-midterm-election-possibility-state-democratic-win">Continue reading...</a>