Senator Josh Hawley says Nashville shooting was an attack on Christians

His Democratic opponent says the far-right Missouri lawmaker is a fraud and a coward' for selective application of hate crime laws

A Democratic opponent of Josh Hawley labelled the Republican a fraud and a coward" after the far-right Missouri senator demanded that the killing of three nine-year-old children and three adults at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, be investigated as a federal hate crime.

Less than two years ago, Hawley was the only US senator to vote against a bill to crack down on hate crimes against Asian Americans during the Covid pandemic.