The 2020 Missouri Attorney General election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the Attorney General of Missouri. It was held concurrently with the presidential election, along with elections to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives, as well as various state and local elections.
Missouri voters headed to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballots in primaries for governor, Senate, the House and the state legislature. Polls closed at 8 p.m. ET. To vote in the Missouri primary, one needed a valid voter ID but it did not need to have a picture on it.
With Republican Sen. Roy Blunt retiring, all eyes were on the Missouri Senate race. In the GOP primary, ex-Gov. Eric Greitens floundered in his attempt at a political comeback after resigning in disgrace in 2018 following sexual assault allegations, blackmail claims and an ethics probe.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt defeated scandal-scarred former Gov. Eric Greitens and 19 others Tuesday in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. Republican leaders have long feared that a Greitens win would jeopardize a red state Senate seat in the November general election.
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Republican incumbent Eric Schmitt has been serving as attorney general since 2019, after Gov. Mike Parson chose him to take over after then-Attorney General Josh Hawley's election to the U.S. Senate in 2018. When Schmitt was chosen, he was serving as Missouri treasurer, which he was elected to in 2016 and had been serving as since 2017. Before that, he served as a state senator from 2009-17 for parts of western St. Louis County.
Missouri modified its absentee/mail-in voting procedures for the November 3, 2020, general election as follows: Absentee/mail-in voting: Any registered voter could cast an absentee ballot ...
Finneran said he entered the race for attorney general because he thought Schmitt was using the office more for political matters instead of "protecting citizens and being a watchdog for them."
The attorney general's office handles thousands of matters at any given time, ranging from enforcement of environmental laws to processing of consumer complaints. The office also acts as special prosecutor when local prosecutors request aid and handles criminal appeals.
Secretary of State. Treasurer. A Democratic Party primary took place on August 4, 2020, in Missouri to determine which candidate would earn the right to run as the party's nominee in the state's attorney general election on November 3, 2020 .
Incumbent Eric Schmitt advanced from the Republican primary for Attorney General of Missouri on August 4, 2020.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt today filed a petition for writ of certiorari in Schmitt v. Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, asking the Supreme Court of the United States to review Missouri’s law prohibiting abortions of unborn children with Down syndrome.
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley (R) defeated U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) and three others in the general election on November 6, 2018, to represent Missouri in the United States Senate.
Jo Crain defeated Jerome H. Bauer in the Green primary for U.S. Senate Missouri on August 7, 2018.
Ballotpedia examined the results of the 50 election cycles that occurred between 1918 and 2016—spanning from President Woodrow Wilson 's (D) second midterm in 1918 to Donald Trump 's (R) first presidential election in 2016.
On October 6, 2018, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fifty Senators voted to confirm Kavanaugh's nomination, 48 voted against, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) voted present. A simple majority was required to confirm Kavanaugh.
Capitol building, forcing members of Congress to evacuate. The events led to five deaths.
Democrats faced greater partisan risk in 2018, as they were defending 26 seats while Republicans were only defending nine. Democrats had to defend seats in 10 states Donald Trump (R) won. The GOP defended one Senate seat in a state Hillary Clinton (D) won. Trump won Missouri by 18.5 percentage points in 2016.
During a debate with Claire McCaskill in his 2018 Senate campaign, Hawley and McCaskill agreed that if it was confirmed that the Saudi government was behind the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, the U.S. should respond severely.