President Trump will hit the campaign trail in Missouri to support Republican Senate candidate Josh Hawley next week.
The Trump re-election campaign announced the Sept. 13 stop in Cape Girardeau in support of the challenger to incumbent Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill. Hawley is the state’s attorney general.
The president is also expected to discuss the latest indicators of the booming Trump economy, his plans to secure the border, the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, the latest attacks by what the president terms the “fake news media,” and more, according to a news release from the campaign.
McCaskill, first elected in 2006, is considered vulnerable. RealClearPolitics ranks the race a toss-up. Trump carried the Show-Me State by double digits in 2016, and the 38-year-old Hawley easily won the Republican primary in August.
The president has committed to campaigning for GOP candidates in at least 40 stops ahead of the midterm elections, hoping for a “red wave” in November.
