KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A coalition of nonprofit groups that has registered more than 87,000 new Missouri voters — most of them black residents — says it is not working for Sen. Claire McCaskill, but its effort could help her campaign against Republican challenger Josh Hawley.
The nonpartisan coalition called Missouri Black Votes wants to engage black voters because of a voter identification approved in 2016, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported . McCaskill, who captured 94 percent of the black vote in Missouri in 2012, is trying to increase her standing among black voters this year after being criticized by some who said she has taken them for granted.
