JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Republicans here believe lingering GOP resentment over how Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was treated in his confirmation hearings will help Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley win Democrat Claire McCaskill’s Senate seat next week.

“There are only a few certainties in life: death, taxes, and conservatives being energized by the Justice Kavanaugh smear campaign,” Hawley’s press secretary Kelli Ford told the Washington Examiner.

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