Email Address Josh Hawley is a phenom. Four years ago he became Missouri’s attorney general. Two years later he unseated Claire McCaskill to become the state’s junior senator. Since then he has been a highly visible figure, positioning himself as best he can as Trump’s heir apparent. On January 6 he was photographed walking into the Capitol to object to the electoral college certification, ostensibly in hopes of reclaiming the presidential election for the Republicans. He is wearing a deep blue suit and a red tie, his hair tousled slightly by a breeze, his jaw set, his fist pumped in the direction of Trump loyalists who had shown up in DC to “take back” the country. The photo isn’t staged, but Hawley knows how to pose. It is the kind of image his team might have saved for later use in a campaign ad if things had gone differently. Depending on how they go now they may still do so.