Missouri Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe (Republican) won the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary, emerging from a crowded field to succeed term-limited Republican Mike Parson.
PersonAppointedHe became lieutenant governor in 2018.Supporting a candidate to replace the outgoing governor.
Kehoe also ran in Tuesday’s election with the endorsement of former President Trump, but the Republican presidential nominee also endorsed Kehoe’s rivals, Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) and state Sen. Bill Eigel (R).
“They’re MAGA and America First! You can’t support one and hurt two,” Trump said.SaidAs a Truth Social post last month put it, “Pick one, you can’t go wrong!”
Kehoe alsoRecommendationHe raised money from the Missouri Farm Bureau PAC and the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police.Large donationsWith the help of American Dream PAC.
On the other side of the aisle, businessman Mike Hamula and state House Minority Leader Crystal Quade were vying for the Democratic nomination, but the conservative state’s governor’s mansion is likely to remain in Republican hands this fall, according to the nonpartisan political handicapper, the Cook Political Report.FeeMissouri “Staunch Republican”
