Politics
Josh Hawley’s Electoral Vote Gambit Trips Up Political Ambitions
- Criticized by mentor, donor for pushing challenge to Biden
- Democratic senators call on Hawley, Ted Cruz to resign
Josh Hawley
Photographer: Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg
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Josh Hawley, first-term Republican senator and former state attorney general from Missouri, has faced unrelenting blowback for his role in challenging Joe Biden’s defeat of President Donald Trump, as violent riots erupted at the Capitol.
Hawley, along with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, led the ultimately doomed effort to upend Biden’s electoral wins in key states, and both attempted to raise campaign funds off their efforts.