A Good Night for the Christian Faith

The Atlantic · Peter Wehner · 2026-11-05 11:00 UTC

A pair of victories may do much to help the Democratic Party—and even more for the evangelical world.

A pair of victories may do much to help the Democratic Party—and even more for the evangelical world.

THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS delivered a crushing, across-the-board defeat to Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and the MAGA movement. The dimensions are staggering.

But even on a night filled with remarkable results, the victories of James Talarico in Texas and Adam Hamilton in Kansas stood apart. It’s not simply that a Texas Senate seat went Democratic for the first time since 1988, or that Kansas Democrats broke a 94-year losing streak, having last won a Senate race in 1932. It’s that Talarico and Hamilton are both committed and prominent Christians. They speak naturally about their faith, and their speeches and interviews are laced with scripture and biblical themes.

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