Josh Hawley is headed back to Washington.
The Republican incumbent has won a second six-year term representing Missouri in the U.S. Senate. He celebrated his win Tuesday night among a group of supporters in southwest Missouri’s Ozark.
“They said that they were going to turn Missouri blue. They said that they would invest whatever it took to beat us. They said that they were going to make an example of the state of Missouri,” Hawley said during his victory speech. “Well, tonight we made an example of them. Tonight, we sent a message: ‘We won this race!’”
As of 1:45 a.m. Wednesday, the Missouri Secretary of State’s website showed that Hawley got roughly 55% of the vote over Democratic nominee Lucas Kunce, who got around 42%. Kunce thanked his supporters during his concession speech last night in Independence.
“You all are the heart and soul of this,” he said. “You’re the reason we were able to do what we were able to do, to stick it out here and run, you know, in a way that nobody ever runs – with no corporate PAC money, no federal lobbyist money, no Big Pharma, no big fossil fuel – none of that. Right?”
Libertarian W.C. Young finished a very distant third with 1.205% of the vote. The Better Party’s Jared Young finished fourth with 0.716%, and the Green Party’s Nathan Kline was fifth with 0.679%.
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