Blue Wave Better Explained By Kansas Beef

Again and again . . . People vote with their wallets and this is a better breakdown of how the historic Kansas flip was REALLY achieved . . .

Kansas’s three largest meatpacking counties — Ford, Seward, and Finney — swung 39, 52, and 37 points toward Democrats, respectively, compared with a roughly 21-point Democratic swing statewide relative to 2024. They were the three counties that helped the Democrats take the Kansas Senate seat, even though less than one in four voters in these counties are registered Democrats.

While the Trump administration increased beef imports in an attempt to lower consumer prices, its immigration policies threatened the workforce responsible for processing this beef. Ranchers faced losses on their cattle; consumers worried about affording steak again; endangered meatpacking workers faced uncertainty about their livelihoods.

Given these widespread grievances, it’s not surprising that a Kansas Senate seat turned blue for the first time since the Great Depression.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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