'Just pretend he's one point down,' Trump says in stump speech for Hawley
Source: Kansas City Star
“Just pretend he’s one point down, please,” Trump told a pack crowd at the Columbia Regional Airport Thursday night. “We cannot take a chance of something going awry on Tuesday. That’s why I’m coming again Monday.”
It was the president’s sixth visit to Missouri during the election cycle, a sign that Republican control of the Senate may hinge on whether Hawley succeeds. Trump will hold his final campaign event of the year in Cape Girardeau on the eve of the election.
A Fox News poll conducted Oct. 27 to 30 found that Hawley and Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, the incumbent, are deadlocked in the race, each drawing support from 43 percent of likely voters.
“This race is flat tied,” McCaskill told reporters Thursday. “And if anybody tries to work you guys over the next few days convincing you that it’s decided one way or another you should tell them to pound sand. Nobody knows how this race is going to end.”
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