Republican Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe will be Missouri’s next governor. On Tuesday, he claimed 59.2% of the vote to defeat Democrat Crystal Quade, Missouri House Minority Leader, who earned 38.7%. Kehoe, a 62-year-old former state senator and businessman, is a committed Catholic who has spoken openly about his faith. You can read an interview he gave to The Catholic Missourian on July 27, 2018, here.
For his part, Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley managed to secure reelection in a race against Democrat Lucas Kunce, a Marine veteran. The incumbent received 55.6% of the vote, compared to Kunce’s 41.8%. This will be Hawley’s second term in office.
Regarding the Missouri General Assembly, partisan alignment will remain unchanged as Republicans have retained their two-thirds supermajority in both the Senate and the House. Each party flipped a seat held by the other in each chamber, but Democrats made no gains for the first time in five elections. Click here to read the full article by the Missouri Independent.