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Article snippet: KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sen. MORE (D) and Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley (R) on Thursday both decried the bombs mailed to several prominent Democrats around the country this week and called for reducing the incendiary rhetoric in politics today, just before they blamed each other’s parties — and each other — for racing toward the gutter. Hawley, a former Supreme Court clerk running his second statewide race after winning the attorney general office in 2016, pointed to Democratic “mobs” that accosted senators during the debate over Justice MORE’s nomination. “It was the Senate Democrats who launched a personal smear campaign against Brett Kavanaugh,” Hawley said. “It was MORE who have encouraged, frankly, confrontation if not violence.” “Did you notice he blamed it on Democrats?” McCaskill asked. “There is incredible incendiary rhetoric used by the president at his rallies from time to time. We all know that.” “This has been a terribly personal campaign,” McCaskill said. “She has been attacking me relentlessly, personally, calling me a liar,” Hawley said later. In their final showdown before November’s midterm elections, taped Thursday at KMBC-TV in Kansas City, two candidates with backgrounds as prosecutors spent an hour relitigating their respective pasts, with only the briefest hints at what the future would hold. It was a debate in keeping with what has been one of the more negative races of a notably nasty election cycle. McCaskill, fighting for her third t... Link to the full article to read more