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Martin Pengelly

Josh Hawley called ‘fraud and coward’ over response to Nashville shooting

Hawley was the only US senator to vote against a Covid-era hate crime bill to crack down on attacks against Asian Americans.
Josh Hawley was the only US senator to vote against a Covid-era hate crime bill to crack down on attacks against Asian Americans. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

A Democratic opponent of Josh Hawley labelled the Republican “a fraud and a coward” after the far-right Missouri senator demanded the killing of three nine-year-old children and three adults at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, be investigated as a federal hate crime.

Less than two years ago, Hawley was the only senator to vote against a bill to crack down on hate crimes against Asian Americans during the Covid pandemic.

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