JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey survived an expensive primary challenge and will seek a full term in his office this November.
On Aug. 6, Missouri Republican Party primary voters voted to keep Bailey according to unofficial results published by the Missouri Secretary of State’s office. With 658 out of 3,566 precincts reporting, the incumbent attorney general had 64.8 percent to 35.2 for Scharf.
“Tonight we came up short,” Scharf wrote in a concession post on X posted soon after 8:30 p.m. local time. He endorsed Bailey in the same post.
Bailey was appointed as Missouri’s top law enforcement official in November 2022 after Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) won election to Congress the same month. This November, Bailey will run for a full term against Elad Gross….