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Cindy Holscher wins election for Kansas governor, extending Democrats' wave of victories
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- Last 3 hours
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1 in the 3 before
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More newsrooms than 93% of the past week’s 4201 stories, and number 126 of 1965 in News.Why it’s moving
- Spreading6 of its 7 newsrooms picked it up in the last 3 hours.
1Democratic state Sen. Cindy Holscher has narrowly won Kansas’ race for governor, NBC News projected Thursday, extending the party’s hold on the office in the red state.
PBS News didn’t include a summary, so this is NBC News’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Cindy Holscher
Cynthia L. Holscher is an American politician who is the governor-elect of Kansas. She represented the 16th district in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2017 to 2020 and has represented the 8th district in the Kansas Senate since 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party and was its nominee in the 2026 Kansas gubernatorial election, which she won.4
The story so far
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Emerging: new in the last few hours and still picking up reports (7 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: NBC News, 6 min before anyone else.
Reported by 7 newsrooms.
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How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
How it spread
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Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 9:46am AEDT | NBC News | 1 |
| 9:52am AEDT | NPR | 2 |
| 10:06am AEDT | Fox News | 3 |
| 10:15am AEDT | PBS News | 4 |
| 10:26am AEDT | The Washington Times | 5 |
| 10:26am AEDT | Washington Examiner | 6 |
| 10:47am AEDT | New York Post | 7 |
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