Jack Danforthr Mo News Today

Cruz saw a 5-point decline in approval rating among GOP voters in Texas. Both junior senators are on more solid footing among Republicans than their senior colleagues. The political fallout surrounding the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill appears to have tarnished the home-state reputations of Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the Senate’s chief objectors to President Joe Biden’s 2020 Electoral College victory — including among some Republican voters. Between Morning Consult Po...

David Humphreys, a Joplin, Mo., businessman and major donor to Sen. Josh Hawley “Hawley should be censured by his Senate colleagues for his actions which have undermined a peaceful transition of power and for provoking yesterday’s riots in our nation’s capital," wrote Humphreys. "We owe it to our children and grandchildren to protect our country and its Constitutional underpinnings." Hawley was interrupted during a Senate debate Wednesday when pro-Trump rioters broke into the Capitol bui...