He calls it a witch hunt-but, the Congress in the state is Republican controlled, lol.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/...mpaign-mccaskill-hawley-greitens-scandal.html
[h=1]In Missouri, Governor’s Scandal Ensnares a Republican-Leaning Senate Race[/h]By NICHOLAS FANDOSAPRIL 12, 2018
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Josh Hawley, Missouri’s attorney general, took the stage in this historic Mississippi River town one evening last week, the picture of what the Republican Party wanted for the coming fight to unseat Senator Claire McCaskill this November: young, telegenic and smart.
Six years ago, Ms. McCaskill won re-election by intervening in the Republican primary to boost the weakest of her potential Republican opponents, Todd Akin, and then making him the poster boy for his party’s problems with women.
This time, it appeared she would have no such luck. That is, until Mr. Hawley and Republicans here were forced to contend with a lurid sex scandal involving the state’s Republican governor. That extramarital relationship has brought accusations of threats of blackmail, a felony indictment and a bipartisan investigation by the state legislature that produced on Wednesday a vivid report of a violent and coercive affair.
Mr. Hawley moved quickly to distance himself from the governor, calling the evidence released by a special legislative committee “shocking, substantial and corroborated.” In a statement, he said the report detailed offenses that were “certainly impeachable” and called on the governor, Eric Greitens, to resign immediately.
Mr. Greitens hunkered down on Thursday but continued to hemorrhage support. Missouri Republicans, including the majority leader of the State Senate and at least one prominent Republican donor, said it was time for him to quit. Three state senators even implored President Trump to intervene, despite the president’s own problems with sexual misconduct accusations.
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Josh Hawley, Missouri’s attorney general, took the stage in this historic Mississippi River town one evening last week, the picture of what the Republican Party wanted for the coming fight to unseat Senator Claire McCaskill this November: young, telegenic and smart.
Six years ago, Ms. McCaskill won re-election by intervening in the Republican primary to boost the weakest of her potential Republican opponents, Todd Akin, and then making him the poster boy for his party’s problems with women.
This time, it appeared she would have no such luck. That is, until Mr. Hawley and Republicans here were forced to contend with a lurid sex scandal involving the state’s Republican governor. That extramarital relationship has brought accusations of threats of blackmail, a felony indictment and a bipartisan investigation by the state legislature that produced on Wednesday a vivid report of a violent and coercive affair.
Mr. Hawley moved quickly to distance himself from the governor, calling the evidence released by a special legislative committee “shocking, substantial and corroborated.” In a statement, he said the report detailed offenses that were “certainly impeachable” and called on the governor, Eric Greitens, to resign immediately.
Mr. Greitens hunkered down on Thursday but continued to hemorrhage support. Missouri Republicans, including the majority leader of the State Senate and at least one prominent Republican donor, said it was time for him to quit. Three state senators even implored President Trump to intervene, despite the president’s own problems with sexual misconduct accusations.
