Michael B. Thomas via Getty Images Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley shakes hands in 2016 with GOP Sen. Roy Blunt, who he once joked about replacing. When Missouri Republican Attorney General Josh Hawley announced his bid for the Senate, he made one thing clear: This wasn’t the plan. “Next year, I’m going to run for the United States Senate,” he said in his launch video in October 2017. Democrats have attempted to portray him as a young man on the make, ditching his job as attorney general to run against McCaskill, who is seeking a third term. (It’s unlikely the offer was sincere ― Bailey once worked for a Democratic member of the Missouri Senate, according to his online resumé.)

Source: Huffington Post July 23, 2018 09:56 UTC