April 26, 2021, 7:21 p.m. ET
The MAGA star Mark McCloskey, despite having no political experience, wants to be the next senator from Missouri.Credit...Illustration by The New York Times; Photographs by Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times and Angela Weiss, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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Don’t look now, but Mark McCloskey is eyeing a run for the open Senate seat in Missouri.
Yes,
that Mark McCloskey, the wealthy St. Louis lawyer who became a MAGA star after he and his wife, Patricia, brandished semiautomatic weapons at protesters marching past their mansion last June. Barefoot and defiant, the McCloskeys cut quite the figure. The video went viral, boosted by a retweet from former President Donald Trump.