The Loews cancelation was among the latest results following Republicans in the wake of the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
It was after liberal Florida attorney Daniel Uhlfelder received a flyer for the Hawley event and posted it online, calling Hawley a "traitor" and asking the hotel chain why it was supporting the Missouri Republican.
Uhlfelder endorsed the Loews decision, saying the company "did the right thing" by cutting Hawley, who was among the GOP lawmakers leading the work to oppose Democrat Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over President Trump.
"It’s good corporate responsibility," Uhlfelder said, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
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Loews owns the Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando, where Hawley was to be the starred guest at a family-oriented event Feb. 12-15 hosted by Fighting for Missouri, a group that raised more than $272,000 for the senator last year, the Sentinel reported.
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After Uhlfelder posted the flyer online, Democratic lawmakers and anti-Trump groups put pressure on the hotel chain, the Sentinel reported.
The critics included Florida state Rep. Anna Eskamani, a Democrat, and The Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans, according to the newspaper.
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Uhlfelder drew media attention in May when he dressed as the Grim Reaper and visited Florida beaches to disgrace visitors and slam Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for not closing the recreational areas amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The lawyer later took backlashes himself when he was recognized at crowded George Floyd protests in June.
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Earlier this month, Hawley lost a deal with publisher Simon & Schuster, which canceled the senator’s book, "The Tyranny of Big Tech," following the Jan. 6 riot.
Hawley grilled the choice, accusing the publisher of bowing to the "woke mob."
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In an op-ed Wednesday, Hawley also pushed back at the thought that he had helped incite the violence on Jan. 6.
"Much of the media and many members of the Washington establishment want to deceive Americans into thinking those who raised concerns incited violence, simply by voicing the concern," Hawley wrote in the Southeast Missourian. "But the democratic debate is not mob violence. It is in fact how we avoid that violence."
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Meanwhile, former staffers of Claire McCaskill – the Democrat whom Hawley took for his Senate seat in 2018 – have formed a super PAC with an eye toward ousting Hawley in 2024, Politico reported. The anti-Hawley group is called JOSH, for Just Oust Seditious Hacks, the report said.
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If the Hawley camp was threatened by the move, it wasn’t letting on.
"We expect Claire McCaskill and her team will be as effective with this campaign as they were with the last," Hawley spokeswoman Kelli Ford told Politico. "They wasted more than $60 million in 2018 – and lost – after Missourians rejected McCaskill’s failed liberal policies."
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