LOADING ERROR LOADING A handful of Republicans running for Missouri’s highest offices secured crucial support from former President Donald Trump ahead of the primary election on Tuesday — a boost for candidates who have all promised to further restrict LGBTQ+ rights in the deep-red state. Missouri has already enacted several anti-trans laws, including a ban on trans youth playing on …
— The Republican leader of the Missouri Senate said Thursday that she would like to expel a conservative senator who has been blocking work in the chamber, escalating a GOP rift that has thwarted work on the party’s priorities. On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Cindy O’Laughlin told reporters at an annual Missouri Press Association event that she “absolutely would” like …
Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. “Everything can be seen as just rhetoric until it can’t anymore and people start using it as an excuse to actually hurt people.” The 30-second video that put Eigel at the center of a social media storm is from a Sept. 15 event for Republicans at a winery near tiny …
— Republicans in the Missouri Senate negotiated behind closed doors for hours Wednesday over how to divvy up the state’s eight congressional districts based on the latest census data. Senate Republicans are divided between a plan that could continue Missouri’s current political split in the U.S. House and a more aggressive proposal that could potentially give the GOP a shot …
