Posted on 05/10/2022 8:11:15 AM PDT by RandFan
Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R), who resigned amid multiple scandals in 2018, is leading the race to become the GOP nominee to represent the state in the Senate, according to a new internal poll that his campaign shared with The Hill.
The poll found Greitens leading two members of Congress — Reps. Vicky Hartzler and Billy Long — as well as Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and gun activist Mark McCloskey, who went viral after images showed he and his wife holding guns in front of their St. Louis home in 2020.
More than a quarter of surveyed voters, 26 percent, said they prefer Greitens, while 19 percent favor Hartzler, 14 percent favor Schmitt, 7 percent said they back Long and 5 percent back McCloskey, according to the internal poll. About 27 percent of voters polled remain undecided.
Missouri’s Senate GOP primary will take place on Aug. 2. Sen. Roy Blunt (R) opted not to seek reelection this year after more than a decade in the Senate and 14 years in the House.
“Gov. Eric Greitens is the only America First candidate running for the U.S. Senate in Missouri,” Greitens campaign manager Dylan Johnson said in a statement to The Hill. “It’s clearer now than ever— even after failed, fake attacks from Mitch McConnell, Karl Rove, and George Soros— that Gov. Greitens will be the next United States Senator from Missouri.”
Greitens has run his campaign as a Trump-styled conservative and courted the former president’s blessing, though he hasn’t won a formal nod. Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancee, who advised the former president’s campaign, serves as national co-chair of Greitens’s campaign
While polling in the Missouri race has been limited, Greitens has consistently been at or near the top, according to the RealClearPolitics polling index.
Greitens, a political newcomer before winning his gubernatorial bid, resigned from the office in 2018 as he faced sexual misconduct allegations and pressure from fellow Republicans to step down. More recently, he’s faced allegations of physical abuse from his ex-wife in an ongoing custody dispute. He has denied the allegations.
The latest survey of 806 likely primary voters was conducted May 2-4. The pollster, co/efficient, notes that 58 percent of respondents were surveyed via mobile text response and 42 percent through automated landline interviews. The poll has a margin of error of 3.48 percentage points.
The Hill?
Consider the source. They want to promote loser candidates to split the GOP vote.
Who is Trump supporting?
He’s ahead by 7 in the poll from this Breitart story.
Trump hasn’t endorsed in the MO Senate race (yet) but Don Jr. supports Grietens.
If they throw away an easy senate win by putting up someone who can’t win rhe general that’s a self inflicted wound.
So scandal ridden he had to resign the governorship? If that is true, is he honestly viable at all in a general election?
Someone on the ground there want to provide some input?
Greitens was on Wayne Allyn Root’s radio show yesterday afternoon (2nd time) and Root gave him his endorsement.
There is a reason George Soros invested so much in taking Greitens out.
At this point I am willing to judge him by his enemies rather than the sewage his enemies dumped on him.
If he is MAGA, then we need him in the Senate.
No more RINOs!
Thank you for that … very interesting.
Greitens is a bit of a disrupter it would be very good to have him in the Senate
He beats any Democrat by 9 points in the latest poll although if he makes it through the primary Karl Rove & media will be campaigning for the Democrat
Try paying attention.
He was smeared by a Soros DA who has now been disciplined for misconduct of the case.
So you are willing to allow George Soros to decide who gets to be a Republican nominee?
He'll smear anybody who is good.
“So scandal ridden he had to resign the governorship? If that is true, is he honestly viable at all in a general election?”
If the poll is true and Grietens is up 9 among women despite the scandal (if that was even real) in what has become a VERY Republican state, then yes, he’ll be viable in November, especially in a Republican wave year.
I think Grietens railing against McConnell and Rove is helping him. The Establishment wants Schmitt, who’s moved to third. These primaries aren’t coming out as they expected (so far).
More recently, he’s faced allegations of physical abuse from his ex-wife in an ongoing custody dispute. He has denied the allegations.
Where do we go to get a viable candidate in Missouri?
Sorry he won the governorship with the split vote primary and he is looking to do the same with another group of Republicans that want to repeat the same scenario. Greitens needs to go head to head with one of the other Republican candidates in the primary. The weak ones need to drop out asap.
when’s the primary?
I know people switch paeties. But this switch was silent, quick, and has never been explained by Greitens.
August 2nd.
If I lived in Missouri I’d vote for the Mclosky. All I know about him is that he stood up to a bunch of stinkin thugs.
He has denied the allegations from his ex and has accused Karl Rove of manufacturing them.
This is going to be a dirty race
The people are voting they putting up the candidate I doubt the GOP Establishment is promoting Greitens
This is the result of the scandal. Unfortunately Gardner got her hand slapped and no real consequences:
https://missouriindependent.com/2022/04/08/kim-gardner-ethics-gretiens/
I’m voting for Hartzler. She voted against certifying the 2020 election and is endorsed by Josh Hawley. Also happens to be my Congress critter.
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