'Josh Hawley, President 2024': School Yearbook Indicates Long- Held Ambition of Missouri Republican

'Josh Hawley, president 2024': school yearbook indicates long-held ambition.' Daily Kos, Jan. 25, 2021.

- Missouri senator, an early supporter of Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his election defeat, is expected to run next time -

Josh Hawley, the Republican from Missouri who faces calls for expulsion from the Senate over his support of Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his election defeat, signed a friend’s eighth-grade yearbook “Josh Hawley, president 2024”. The same yearbook named Hawley and the friend whose yearbook he signed among “future presidents”, the Kansas City Star reported.

Hawley is now among conservative senators jostling for the mantle of Trump and he is widely expected to run for the Republican nomination next time. He was the first to say he would support Trump’s baseless claims of electoral fraud by formally objecting to electoral college results.

Hawley, Ted Cruz and others went through with their objections on 6 January, even after a mob incited by the president stormed Congress, leaving five people dead. Hawley was also pictured raising a fist to the Trump supporters, his actions contributing to unease among donors and the momentary loss of a publishing deal.

The yearbook titbit was contained in a deeply reported profile in the Star, a paper which has called for Hawley’s resignation. Hawley did not comment. But the same day, Sunday, he published a front page column in the New York Post. The senator railed against “cancel culture” and said it was “time to stand up against the muzzling of America”. The irony of his doing so on the front page of a Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid with a national profile was widely noted by observers on social media...

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