Do not be so sure. I am sure he in reality your typical liberal Saint Louis lawyer. As a Missouri voter he will not get my vote.
I thought I read that they were dems. If he wants to run for some St Louis position fine but he won’t be representing me as far as I’m concerned.
It’s been long-running, knee-jerk conventional wisdom in these parts that the McCloskeys are limousine liberals who got mugged and changed their tune.
Way back last summer, I decided to do my own research into the issue and found that the McCloskeys were Trump supporters in 2016 as well as backing other GOP candidates in previous cycles.
The FEC data doesn’t lie:
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=mark+mccloskey&contributor_zip=63108