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The Kansas City Star reports:
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley gave his backing on Saturday to Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s campaign to join him in the U.S. Senate. At Missouri State Lincoln Days, an annual gathering of Republicans in the state, Hawley told reporters he settled on Hartzler because he thinks she’ll be a strong voice for Missouri.
“It is my privilege and my honor to support Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler to be the next United States senator from the state of Missouri,” Hawley said in St. Charles, a St. Louis suburb.
Hartzler has been polling in third place behind former Gov. Eric Greitens and Attorney General Eric Schmitt. Hawley’s endorsement could boost her campaign.
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Hartzler last appeared on JMG in August 2021 when her anti-vax chief of staff died of COVID.
. @EricGreitens was not mentioned during the endorsement announcement. But there were certainly allusions to the former governor.
“If we give up a Republican seat in Missouri,” @HawleyMO said, “it’s going to be hard to retake the Senate.” #mosen #moleghttps://t.co/AkJCXJDlXO
— Jason Hancock (@J_Hancock) February 12, 2022
For almost a year I’ve been asked who I intend to vote for in #MOSEN primary this August. Well, I’ve made up my mind. I’ll be supporting @VickyHartzlerMO. Vicky has the integrity, the heart, and the toughness to represent MO. I can’t wait to work with her pic.twitter.com/yIk4h2baxw
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) February 12, 2022
Josh @HawleyMO is a fearless, unapologetic conservative leader in the U.S. Senate, & I am honored to have earned his endorsement.
We need another CONSERVATIVE voice in the Senate, & Josh knows I am the best choice to fight for an America First agenda & fight for Missourians!! pic.twitter.com/aCZUkfBTy5
— Vicky Hartzler (@VickyHartzlerMO) February 12, 2022
RELATED: Rep. Vicky Hartzler is one of the most vicious opponents of LGBT rights in the US House, which is saying something. She appeared on JMG in 2019 when she hosted ex-gay torture advocates in her office next door to Rep. Ted Lieu, who had just introduced a bill to ban the practice. That same year she publicly pressured Amazon to resume selling books by the now-dead Joseph Nicolosi, the so-called father of ex-gay torture. Before being elected to Congress, Hartzler headed the Missouri Coalition to Protect Marriage, which in 2004 backed the successful campaign to install a statewide constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Hartzler has compared same-sex marriage to incest and pedophilia. In 2020, she was among the 146 GOP House reps who voted to overturn the presidential election.