UPDATED: House Republicans appear to build on supermajority

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(Updated to include comments from House speaker and key Democratic lawmaker)

House Republicans appeared to build on their supermajority Tuesday night, flipping three Democratically held seats and defending robust challenges to lawmakers in suburban Johnson County.

Republicans knocked off Democratic state Reps. Jason Probst in Hutchinson, Allison Hougland of Olathe and Dennis Miller of Olathe, according to complete but unofficial results on Tuesday night.

Two of those lawmakers - Probst and Hougland - were just among a handful of legislators to win elections in legislative districts that were carried by former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election cycle.

The pickups appear . . .

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