The morning after Democrats gained control of Congress, NBC’s Wednesday edition of Today was especially excited over two Senate races in particular. Meet the Press host Kristen Welker and correspondent Ryan Nobles both hyped the alleged fact that Kansas’s Adam Hamilton is a “moderate” and barely even a Democrat. Meanwhile, Nobles also tried to praise Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed for overcoming “personal attacks.”
Welker claimed that Hamilton was a good example of Democrats running quality candidates, “Well, part of this comes down to — and part of the themes last night has to do with — and Hallie just touched on this: the quality of the candidate. Here you had the sitting senator, Roger Marshall. A lot of his allies didn’t think he really engaged in the race early enough. Adam Hamilton, a pastor, had a lot of crossover appeal. He ran as a moderate. He wasn’t really even leaning into being a Democrat, and those were the types of themes and messages that resonated.”
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