John Danforth: Supporting Josh Hawley ‘worst mistake I ever made in my life’

One day after Missouri U.S. Senator Josh Hawley objected to certifying electoral college results in favor of President-Elect Joe Biden, one of Hawley’s mentors and a key figure in pushing his 2018 Senate campaign is voicing his regrets.

Former Missouri U.S. Senator John Danforth told St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Tony Messenger that “Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life.” Danforth said the violence Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol was the “culmination of the long attempt to foment a lack of public confidence in our democratic system. It is very dangerous to America to continue pushing this idea that government doesn’t work and that voting was fraudulent.”