Missouri’s Tuesday primaries revealed deep divisions between both parties within the state, with Republicans seeing a hotly contested, ideologically charged primary for the governorship while Democrats saw a Squad member defeated by a moderate in one of the safest Democratic congressional seats in the country.
In the Republican gubernatorial primary, Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe, widely considered a moderate, defeated two opponents running to his right in a three-way race, the populist State Senator Bill Eigel and Missouri’s Secretary of State John “Jay” Ashcroft (the son of a former U.S. Attorney General). Kehoe won with 39.4 percent of the vote to Eigel’s …