NEW YORK (AP) – Republican Senate candidate Josh Hawley is warning Missouri
voters that “our way of life is at risk” in a new television ad that seizes on
the Supreme Court vacancy to attack his Democratic opponent, Sen. Claire
McCaskill.
Hawley began running the ad Monday, the same day President Donald Trump is
scheduled to unveil his pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony
Kennedy. The nomination is subject to Senate confirmation.
The Supreme Court vacancy is expected to energize Republican voters across the
nation in this fall’s midterm elections. The 38-year-old Hawley, Missouri’s
attorney general, has a special connection to the court: He clerked for Chief
Justice John Roberts.
The ad says: “The eyes of the nation are on Missouri. We decide which values
control the Senate, and the Supreme Court.”
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