Midwest

Riley Gaines stars in Hawley campaign ad hitting Missouri Dem's support for 'radical trans agenda'

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1 year ago

September 14, 2024

Riley Gaines stars in Hawley campaign ad hitting Missouri Dem's support for 'radical trans agenda'

FIRST ON FOX: Riley Gaines is starring front and center in a new ad for Republican Sen. Josh Hawley’s re-election campaign against progressive challenger Lucas Kunce in Missouri.

The 30-second ad obtained by Fox News Digital is narrated by Gaines and shows her diving into a pool as the camera pans to her telling her story.

“As a child, I woke up at four am to swim every day. I fought my way to nationals, but then I was forced to compete against a man,” Gaines can be heard saying in the video. “He got the trophy a woman had earned.”

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Riley Gaines has been a voice for keeping sports fair for women. (Getty Images)

“It’s wrong. Lucas Kunce supports the radical trans agenda, boys in girls’ bathrooms, sex change operations for minors, explicit teaching in grade school – it’s gross. But Josh Hawley defends the rights of women, Josh. Hawley is on our side,” Gaines said.

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Sen. Josh Hawley speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting to vote on Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Capitol Hill, April 4, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

During the 2022 primaries, Kunce, a progressive Democrat, supported transgender treatment for children. On Thursday, Kunce posted a video of Hawley on X talking about Missouri’s Amendment 3 – the state’s right to abortion initiative – where Hawley said that Kunce supports transgender treatments for minors.

“Josh Hawley is so afraid of sharing the ballot with an amendment to end his total abortion ban that it’s broken his brain,” Kunce posted to X in response.

Kunce won the Democratic primary in Missouri, a Republican state, last month and has his sights set on unseating Hawley, who was elected in 2019.

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Transgender policies have been a point of contention between those who believe parents should have more control over their children’s education and those who think LGBT students should be allowed to decide what to tell their parents, or not tell them. (Adobe Stock)

“It’s an election year, so now Josh Hawley sees ‘mandated sex change surgeries’ behind every corner,” a senior Kunce campaign adviser told Fox News Digital. “He even says that Missourians ending his total abortion ban will ‘mandate’ sex change surgeries for kids. No one’s buying it.”

In a previous Hawley ad, he said on X, “Of all Lucas Kunce’s nutty policies, this may be the worst: he wants MEN in girls’ sports. And MEN in girls’ locker rooms. It’s nuts – and dangerous. But that’s Kunce.”

Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.

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Milwaukee, WI

Landmark Credit Union Live officially opens in Milwaukee

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24 minutes ago

February 28, 2026

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Landmark Credit Union Live officially opens in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE – Landmark Credit Union Live, Milwaukee’s newest concert venue, opened its doors on Friday. And with the Bucks playing next door at the same time, the whole area was hopping.

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Fans flocked to Fiserv Forum to watch the team play the New York Knicks, and music lovers stood in line to see Rainbow Kitten Surprise on the opening night of Landmark Credit Union Live.

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“Very busy, very crowded the bars and restaurants,” said Ashley Evans. “That’d be great to add to the city again, to continue to bring more tourists out.”

“This is going to be amazing. I’ve been wanting to see them for a very long time, so I’m very excited,” said Rachel Lococo.

Fans line up for the official opening of Landmark Credit Union Live

Landmark Credit Union Live can host up to 4,500 people. Friday night’s show was sold out, drawing fans from places like Chicago, Minnesota, Iowa and elsewhere.

“Some people have driven from Indiana, so there’s a lot of people coming out tonight,” said Kade McCane, who came from Madison. “Honestly, really exciting to be among the first people who get to be there, and for RKS to be among the first people who will ever perform here, I hope this venue gets huge and big and becomes very popular.”

The excitement was felt all around Milwaukee. Even the competition rolled out the welcome mat.

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“Our goal to grow as a city means that a lot of things have to happen. This is the very, tiny, small work that has to happen,” said Gary Witt, president and CEO of The Pabst Theater Group, which runs six nearby venues.

“The introduction of any new business in the city, especially one that pays attention to the fact that we have spent 24 years growing the live culture economy in the city of Milwaukee, says to me that we’ve done our job.”

Witt said live entertainment is an industry Milwaukee’s economy has been dependent on coming from visitors like those who turned out Friday.

The Source: FOX6 News interviewed the people in this story and referenced prior coverage related to the opening of Landmark Credit Union Live.

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Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis construction workers call on developers to take stand against ICE

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36 minutes ago

February 28, 2026

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Minneapolis construction workers call on developers to take stand against ICE

Construction workers in Minneapolis on Friday called for developers to demand that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave Minnesota and offer protections for their crews. Protesters at a separate demonstration on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis asked corporate businesses to end what they call cooperation with immigration enforcement.

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