Hawley's lead over McCaskill expands to 7 points in Missouri Senate race

Washington Examiner:

Republican Josh Hawley led incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill by 7 points in the closely watched Missouri Senate race, according to a fresh poll conducted for the challenger’s campaign.

Hawley, the Missouri attorney general, topped McCaskill, the state’s two-term senator, 49 percent to 42 percent, with 5 percent undecided and a collection of third party candidates garnering 4 percent combined.

The Hawley campaign credits the explosive confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh with helping the Republican nominee establish what it believes is a durable lead heading into the final weeks of the midterm election campaign.
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But the Hawley campaign believes that the combination of President Trump’s high job approval rating in Missouri, and McCaskill’s low personal approval rating, as shown in this latest poll, is too big a hill to climb for the Democrat.

In the survey, Trump enjoyed a 54 percent job approval rating across Missouri; his numbers were the same with self-described independent voters. To demonstrate Hawley’s strength, Anderson and McGehrin said that they adjusted the poll results to account for a Democratic surge — and still found their candidate in command.
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The race is still tight in the Real Clear Politics compilation of previous polls.  McCaskill has also had to deal with a Project Veritas sting video indicating her opposition to semi-automatic weapons that are very popular among gun owners.