This season’s special congressional elections are being heralded as a test of whether newly energized Democrats will fare better with an unpopular Republican president.
So far, the Democrats are passing the test.
On Tuesday, Republicans won an unexpectedly close race in Kansas’ Fourth Congressional District. The Republican Ron Estes won by seven points over James Thompson, even though President Trump won the district by 27 points in November. No Democrat holds a House seat as Republican as this one, so it’s startling that the seat was even competitive.
