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A 19-year-old Democratic candidate for a Kansas House seat narrowly beat a long-time incumbent in the primary election — despite the newcomer admitting to sexually harassing girls online in middle school.

Aaron Coleman, a dishwasher and community college student, won the race against Rep. Stan Frownfelter by just 14 votes in their Kansas City, Kansas district.

Frownfelter, who’s held the seat since 2007, said he plans to run a write-in campaign in the November general election that is without a Republican challenger.

The primary outcome took even Coleman by surprise, who told The Associated Press he “had no intention of winning.”

The teen has a checkered past dating back to when he was 14, the age where he admittedly bullied, blackmailed and subjected as least one middle-school girl to revenge porn.

At the time, Coleman had obtained a nude photo of a girl and threatened to share it with others if she didn’t send more similar pictures, The Kansas City Star reported.

When the girl refused, Coleman followed through with his threat, the victim explained in a social media post, according to the newspaper.

Coleman in a June Facebook post acknowledged the allegations were true.

He described himself at the time as a “sick and troubled” 14-year-old who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder over allegedly being locked in a closet for much of elementary school.

The local school district denies his claims.

The primary winner more recently landed in hot water when it was reported by the Kansas Reflector in August that he made a Facebook post suggesting he would “laugh and giggle” if a former GOP state lawmaker died of COVID-19.

Coleman’s shocking win, which he attributed to door-knocking on the campaign trail, has ruffled the state’s Democratic Party.

“Mr. Coleman has continuously proven himself unfit to serve in the Kansas Legislature,” House Minority Leader Tom Sawyer, a Wichita Democrat, said in a statement Monday.

The newcomer supports universal health coverage, eliminating college tuition, defunding the police and legalizing marijuana.

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