MAGA senator Josh Hawley ripped for push to 'control us in the bedroom'

16 August 2024

In the 2018 midterms — which saw a major blue wave in the U.S. House of Representatives — Democrats were disappointed when then-Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) was unseated by MAGA Republican Josh Hawley. Now, six years later, Sen. Hawley is running for reelection, and polls are showing him as the frontrunner.

A Remington Research Poll found Hawley leading Democratic challenger Lance Kunce by 14 percent. And an Emerson College poll from June showed Hawley ahead by 9 percent.

Those polls aren't especially surprising, as Missouri is deeply Republican. The last Democrat to carry Missouri in a presidential race was Bill Clinton in 1996.

Regardless, Kunce is running an aggressive campaign, attacking Hawley as a glaring example of the MAGA movement's authoritarianism.

In an interview with Newsweek published on August 16, Kunce slammed Hawley as "typical country club" politician — arguing, "We are really trying to take power back from politicians like Josh Hawley, who want to control us and take our power away. He wants to control us in the bedroom, the doctor's office, the workplace. He was a right-to-work guy, anti-union. He won't protect IVF or contraception."

Kunce, Newsweek's Jason Lemon notes, has been slamming Hawley on the abortion issue.

Kunce, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, told Newsweek, "He supported overturning Roe. He even wants to get rid of no-fault divorces, which would trap so many people in dangerous marriages."

Read Newsweek's full interview with Lance Kunce at this link.

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