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MOScout Daily Update: Skelton Out in Senate 19 - $425K to Rowden PAC - Parson OKs Refugees - SCOMO on Special Laws and much much more....


Skelton Out in Senate 19

News Tribune reports that “Michela Skelton, a Democratic candidate, has announced she has withdrawn from her campaign for Missouri's 19th state Senate district.”

What It Means

  • Good news for Dems who are eyeing Senate 19 as a possible pick-up.  Former Democratic Rep. Judy Baker now becomes presumptive nominee to face Sen. Caleb Rowden.

  • MOScout/Remington polling from September showed the race in a statistical tie: Rowden at 49% and Baker at 45% with a margin of error +/- 4.7%.

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