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    Red-state Democratic senators court Trump supporters in bid to keep their seats

    by Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times Nov 01, 2018 5 minutes

    POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. - The Butler County Democrats of Missouri came out in full force this week to greet Sen. Claire McCaskill - all three dozen of them.

    In the party's field office, the Democratic faithful cheered for their two-term senator and laughed at jokes about how her younger rival, Josh Hawley, can't keep up with her busy campaign schedule. But they also got a dose of electoral reality from one of Missouri's last Democratic statewide officials.

    "I think we can all agree that I'm probably not going to carry this county. Does everyone agree with that?" McCaskill said in this southern stretch of Missouri, where gun shops advertise on the radio and billboards blare anti-abortion messages. "But that doesn't mean I don't show up, show respect and fight for every vote

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