In a roller coaster month in politics, Republicans have found themselves struggling to combat a wave of momentum from the left as Kamala Harris and Tim Walz now make up the Democratic ticket. At the same time, Heartland Republicans have been at the forefront of several embarrassing stories. Here are five of them.
Missouri state Sen. Denny Hoskins (R-Warrensburg) has won the Republican nomination in the Midwest state’s crowded secretary of state primary election.
Missouri’s sitting Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) has secured the Republican nomination in the Midwest state’s tossup gubernatorial election.
Missouri Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Jay Ashcroft (R) has bemoaned schools for “indoctrinating” children, all while his wife sat on the board of a Christian academy that touts creationism.
Missouri gubernatorial candidate and sitting Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) received over $40,000 in campaign donations from election-denying lobbyists who urged him to drop Missouri from an election security nonprofit, emails show.
Reports show that Missouri Republican gubernatorial candidate Jay Ashcroft took $20,000 in campaign gifts in 2016 from donor Toufic Baaklini, who later admitted to illegally funneling foreign money to U.S. candidates from a Nigerian-born billionaire.
On Tuesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) openly identified as a member and advocate for the Christian Nationalist movement — an ideology which maintains that American law and government should be filtered through the lens of Christianity.
Missouri Republican state Senate candidate David Martin is being charged with assault after he allegedly punched county vice chair Teresa McBride in the back after an argument about an overflowing toilet.
On Wednesday, a bill that would have enshrined a federal safeguard for the use of contraceptives as well as “protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception,” was shut down by GOP senators, including those from key Midwestern states.
Last Friday, Cole County Circuit Cour Judge Cotton Walker allowed honorary Klu Klux Klan member Darrell McClanahan to remain on the ballot for Missouri’s gubernatorial election, despite the Missouri Republican Party’s objections.