Posted on 04/01/2021 6:41:39 AM PDT by RandFan
Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) has a nearly 40-point lead over the next closest contender in the GOP Senate primary, according to an internal survey conducted by former President Trump’s pollster.
The survey of 400 GOP primary voters, which was commissioned by the Greitens campaign, finds him at 48 percent support, followed by state Attorney General Eric Schmitt at 11 percent.
Schmitt is the only other announced candidate, but Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) pulls 9 percent support and Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) clocks in at 7 percent in the poll. Twenty-six percent of GOP primary voters said they’re undecided.
The survey was conducted by Trump’s pollsters Tony Fabrizio, David Lee and Travis Tunis.
Greitens jumped into the race last week following Sen. Roy Blunt’s (R-Mo.) decision to retire.
The move came nearly three years after he resigned as governor amid allegations he photographed a woman in the nude without consent as part of an effort to hide an extramarital affair.
Greitens admitted to having an affair with the woman but denied the allegations of blackmail. The charges against him were later dropped and a Missouri panel "found no evidence of wrongdoing" in a separate probe of alleged campaign spending violations.
Some establishment Republicans have warned the scandal could drag Greitens down in the general election and hand Democrats what should be a safely Republican seat.
But the Fabrizio poll finds Greitens with widespread support among Republicans heading into the primary.
Greitens’s favorability rating is at 64 percent positive and 20 percent negative.
“This is not a case of winning simply based on higher name ID,” Fabrizio wrote. “Greitens is truly the preferred choice on an even playing field.”
Trump remains hugely popular among Missouri Republicans, with 84 percent viewing him favorably.
The poll found Greitens has support from 55 percent of those who view Trump favorably.
Trump has not endorsed in the race but intends to be a factor in scores of primary contests happening across the country.
“He has the ability to be a force in this campaign if he so chooses,” Fabrizio wrote.
The Fabrizio, Lee & Associates survey of 400 GOP primary voters was conducted from March 23 to March 25 and has a 4.9 percentage point margin of error.
Do the opposite of what the GOPe suggests.
400 sample ain’t a lot..................
I only know him from his YouTube channel. Seems like a rock-solid Trump supporter, to me. If he gets Trump's endorsement, he should win easily - Democrat ads about his affair would ring awfully hollow, given their party's acceptance of its own villains.
Damn' straight.
Sounds good. We’re fortunate he is the front runner then rather than some RINO Establishment Next-in-liner.
I wish him well.
I’ve heard this before, polls suggesting the GOPe candidate is behind in the polls, then he winds up getting 80% in the Primary.
Sample size is indicative when conducted properly, as here IMHO.
Others will do initial polling too but this reflects more name recognition at this stage.
It does give others an idea of how high the hill to climb.
It’s all good.
He cohosts with Bannon on War room once in a while. Seems like a straight shooter. One America voice app. On in 5 minutes.
Real America’s voice, dumb ass!
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On Bannon’s WARROOM quite a bit.
Any Missourians care to give the factually correct backstory here? Was this guy actually run out of office on fabricated, fallacious allegations? Or, was there actually something to it?
He seems great on paper with an nearly unbelievable CV. And maybe that’s why they came for him. IDK.
He was a war hero, author, great speaker, and was accused of forcing his hair cutter to come to his house where he photographed her in inappropriate poses. Her husband was a union operative and he might have been set-up but he did the deed. Unions hated him because of his right-to-work stance, which was overturned by state vote as soon as he resigned from the governorship. It is sheer ego that he brings to the table at this point.
Dems will probably cross vote in the primary to make sure he is on the ticket and run a woman against him.
No, his wife is a class act (unlike the haircutter) and I believe she stuck with him. But the sleaze factor is there.
He was driven from the governor’s office by a Soros DA from St. Louis.
The fact that Soros doesn’t want him is enough endorsement for me.
We’re in for another round of “I AM A NAVY SEAL! I WILL FIGHT FOR YOU!” Lots of campaign ads with him in his Navy SEAL uniform and guns firing. In the governor primary he won because he had split the vote:
Governor Primary August 2, 2016 REPUBLICAN
Catherine Hanaway - 136,521 - - - 19.952%
Eric Greitens - 236,481 - - - 34.561%
John Brunner - 169,620 - - - 24.789%
Peter Kinder - 141,629 - - - 20.698%
Party Total: 684,251
Every campaign ad from the ‘Rats is going to have the lead as “The former DISGRACED Governor...”
I don’t like Greitens. I do like my congresswoman, Ann Wagner.
He’ll be an improvement as a senator. The old paradigm of political/regulator class parasites robbing young private sector families is on the way out.
Self promoting nut-job Democrat got to be Gov by pretending to be a conservative. Nutty affair and who cares if there was no real blackmail. This is a Dem trap.
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