A potential catastrophe for Britain is festering in the cornfields of Kansas.
This sparsely-populated, far-away prairie state in America’s mid-west hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since a landslide swept Franklin Delano Roosevelt into the White House in 1932, heralding the start of the New Deal to tackle the Great Depression which followed the 1929 Wall Street Crash.
Donald Trump easily won Kansas all three times he ran for president, with victory margins of between 15 and 20 percentage points.
A Republican won the last race for a Senate seat (in 2022) by 23 points.
The state’s other Senate seat is up for grabs in
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