In Missouri, Greitens' comeback bid has some in GOP on edge

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Source: Associated Press

In Missouri, Greitens’ comeback bid has some in GOP on edge

By JIM SALTER
December 18, 2021

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is banking on Republican voters forgiving his past indiscretions when they choose a U.S. Senate nominee next August. Many in the GOP establishment are hoping they don’t forget.

Greitens resigned as governor in 2018 amid an investigation of an extramarital affair with his St. Louis hairdresser allegedly involving bondage and blackmail and leading to criminal and legislative investigations. The allegation of a photo taken without the woman’s consent for the purposes of blackmail led to a felony criminal charge, which was eventually dropped.

Now, he is among the frontrunners in a crowded field of Republican Senate candidates that includes U.S. House members Vicky Hartzler and Billy Long, Attorney General Eric Schmitt and the St. Louis lawyer who made headlines by pointing a gun at racial injustice protesters outside his home, Mark McCloskey.

Some Republican leaders worry that Greitens could win the GOP nomination but lose in the general election, ceding a crucial Senate seat in what should be a safely red state. Among them is Hartzler, citing one major demographic in particular.

“There’s hardly any women in the state who will vote for him,” she said in a phone interview.

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1. I realize after Trump, abusers are top of the pops in the GOP

But this one... confinement, torture, extortion, AND revenge porn.

You'd think he'd have at least one toke over the line even for the GOP.