WASHINGTON  • Attorney General Josh Hawley and Sen. Claire McCaskill are in a statistical tie in Missouri’s pivotal 2018 Senate race, but Hawley is unfamiliar to more than a sixth of the state’s citizens, a new Mason-Dixon Poll says.

The April 4-6 survey shows Hawley with wide margins in rural Missouri, with McCaskill, D-Mo., holding smaller, but still substantial, advantages in St. Louis and Kansas City.