By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief
Good morning,
For years, Missouri Republicans could win legislative races simply by being Republicans. In parts of suburban Kansas City, that may no longer enough.
Jon Patterson is the speaker of the Missouri House and one of the most powerful Republicans in the state. Yet in his campaign for Senate, he is spending considerable energy reminding voters where he has broken with his party.
Democrat Keri Ingle doesn’t need eastern Jackson County to become deep blue. She just needs enough voters to decide that Republican control has gone far enough.
Republicans still have the advantage. But the money and attention flowing into eastern Jackson County suggest both parties see a real contest .
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by Annelise Hanshaw
In one of the state’s few competitive Senate races, the candidates draw contrasts over public schools, taxes and abortion.
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by Ashley Murray
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding his colleagues across the aisle apologize to former special counsel Jack Smith after Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt launched false accusations at a recent hearing.
COMMENTARY
by Jeannie Brandstetter
The Cornell rape case — and the woman identified as Jane Doe at the center of it — has begun to plague me. I am doing everything I can to erase this man’s name and face from my memory, but suddenly it’s like he’s in the room with me all the time. I can’t escape him.
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