ST. LOUIS (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas is asking Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri to remove his name and praise for her from a new campaign ad.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Roberts wants McCaskill to remove from the ad his quote from August 2017 describing her as a senator he seeks out to get things done on a bipartisan basis.

McCaskill is in a tight re-election race with Republican Secretary of State Josh Hawley, whose campaign paints her as a Democratic obstructionist. McCaskill says she is known for working across party lines.

Late Tuesday, Hawle...