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Trump wins Kansas and GOP takes all 4 of its House seats

kansas-31509_1280TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican nominee Donald Trump has carried Kansas in the presidential race as expected and Kansas Republicans have won all four of the state’s U.S. House seats.

GOP Sen. Jerry Moran cruised to an easy re-election Tuesday, and voters approved an amendment to the state constitution to protect hunting and fishing.

The most competitive congressional race was in the 3rd District in the Kansas City area, but GOP incumbent Kevin Yoder dashed the best hopes Democrats had for picking up a seat in Congress since 2008.

Secretary of State Kris Kobach had predicted that a record 1.3 million of the state’s 1.8 million registered voters would participate. More than 505,000 ballots were cast in advance, 47 percent more than before the last presidential election in 2012.

Conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s only appointee on the Kansas Supreme Court will be staying on the bench.

Voters in Tuesday’s election opted to retain Justice Caleb Stegall. It was the first time he’s been on the ballot since his appointment in 2014, and he’ll serve a six-year term.

Stegall served as Jefferson County attorney and Brownback’s chief counsel before the governor named him to the Kansas Court of Appeals in 2013.

GOP conservatives and abortion opponents sought in this year’s election to remove four Supreme Court justices appointed by previous governors. They hoped to give Brownback an opportunity to push the seven-member court to the right with new appointees.

The four other justices also came under fire for previous rulings overturning death sentences in capital murder cases.

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