On （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 attack 周年記念日, challenge of Hawley 発表するd
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Two years to the day since U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley's now-famous raised-握りこぶし salute to 暴徒s at the U.S. （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂, a 海洋 退役軍人 who ran unsuccessfully for 上院 in 2022 発表するd Friday that he'll try to unseat Hawley in 2024.
Lucas Kunce, 40, served 13 years in the 海洋s. A ビデオ 解放（する）d by his （選挙などの）運動をする shows the photo of Hawley with his 握りこぶし raised on Jan. 6, 2021 - a photo that drew strong 批評 from some, but also appears on coffee 襲う，襲って強奪するs that the 上院議員 sells. Kunce's ビデオ also shows 安全 camera （映画の）フィート数 of Hawley running through the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 hallway in the 大混乱／混沌とした 影響 of the attack.
"I 断言する, this coward´s always running from something," Kunce says in the ビデオ. "When things get 堅い, Missourians deserve a U.S. 上院議員 who will stand up for them, not run away."
Kyle Plotkin, a 広報担当者 for the Hawley （選挙などの）運動をする, 解任するd the Kunce 告示.
"We welcome this desperate woke 行動主義者 to yet another political race," Plotkin said in an email. "He just barely finished losing his last one. Maybe he´s running in the wrong 明言する／公表する."
Kunce was の中で several 候補者s running for 上院 in 2022 after two-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 現職の Roy Blunt 発表するd his 計画（する）s to retire, and seemed 長，率いるd for the Democratic 指名／任命 before the late 入ること／参加（者） of Anheuser-Busch brewing 相続人 Trudy Busch Valentine. She 辛うじて 敗北・負かすd Kunce in the August 最初の／主要な, then was soundly 敗北・負かすd by 共和国の／共和党の Eric Schmitt in November.
FILE - Democratic 上院 希望に満ちた Lucas Kunce speaks to the 圧力（をかける） after 譲歩するing at a 予備選挙 watch party Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. Two years after Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. now-famous raised-握りこぶし salute to 暴徒s at the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂, Kunce, 発表するd Friday, Jan. 6, 2023 that he'll try to unseat Hawley in 2024.(AP Reed/Hoffmann, とじ込み／提出する)
Kunce 直面するs long 半端物s in 2024. Missouri, a swing 明言する／公表する a 世代 ago, has moved decidedly to the 権利 over the past １０年間. Every statewide ele cted 公式の／役人 in Missouri is now a 共和国の／共和党の.
Kunce did show 重要な fundraising 技術s last year, outraising every 候補者, even 共和国の／共和党のs. He fashioned himself as a 人民党員 and his （選挙などの）運動をする 告示 for 2024 特記する／引用するd his 軍の history and his family's 財政上の hardships when he grew up in Jefferson City.
Hawley, 43, is in his first 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 as 上院議員. He was elected Missouri 弁護士／代理人／検事 general in 2016 before 首尾よく running for 上院 in 2018.
The week before the attack on the U.S. （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 two years ago, Hawley became the first 共和国の／共和党の 上院議員 to 発表する he would 反対する to the certification of the 2020 大統領の 選挙. After the 解放（する） of the photo showing him with his 握りこぶし raised, a one-time 助言者, former U.S. Sen. John Danforth of Missouri, called supporting Hawley "the worst 決定／判定勝ち（する） I've ever made in my life."
FILE - Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., after 上院 共和国の／共和党のs met behind の近くにd-doors to 持つ／拘留する their leadership 選挙s, at the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. Two years after Hawley's now-famous raised-握りこぶし salute to 暴徒s at the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂, Lucas Kunce, a 海洋 退役軍人 who ran unsuccessfully for 上院 in 2022 発表するd Friday, Jan. 6, 2023 that he'll try to unseat Hawley in 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, とじ込み／提出する)
