In the end, Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins just couldn’t get it done.

Hawkins didn’t have the muscle, didn’t have the persuasive power, didn’t have the juice to deliver for President Donald Trump. All the president asked was for a simple redistricting, a tiny gerrymander in Johnson County, to deliver an extra congressional seat to Republicans. All Hawkins had to do was persuade two-thirds of his chamber to sign a petition calling for a special session. Too many Republicans balked.

Trump groups people into two camps: winners and losers. Hawkins showed, on the same day that Democrats romped to victory in other states, that he was a loser.

But then Trump may have been distracted on Tuesday. The appearance-obsessed president was arguably the biggest loser of all that day, as voters from C

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