Eric Schmitt’s Campaign Downplays Importance of a Trump Endorsement Day Before Missouri Election

With the election Tuesday, Trump took to Truth Social Monday and announced he would be endorsing a candidate at some point in the day. The post came hours after he bashed Schmitt’s campaign over a poll commissioned by operatives associated with the campaign that Republican strategists say purposefully undercounted Trump’s support to boost Schmitt’s numbers.

“Wow, great dishonesty in politics. Too bad!” Trump wrote of the Remington Research Group poll — commissioned by operatives associated with the Schmitt campaign — in a Truth Social post. Remington was launched by the political consulting firm Axiom Strategies, which was founded by Jeff Roe — Schmitt’s top consultant. As Trump has already counted out Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), and with his chastising of the Schmitt campaign making it highly unlikely he endorses the attorney general, it appears former Gov. Eric Greitens (R-MO) is the favorite to land Trump’s coveted endorsement.

On Monday afternoon, Lane Osborn, an intern with the Schmitt campaign, downplayed the importance of President Trump’s support in the race, asserting that Schmitt would still win if Trump endorses another candidate.

While the intern may be confident in Schmitt’s ability to overcome a Trump-endorsed opponent, the track record this mid-term election cycle indicates Schmitt’s campaign should be gravely concerned if Trump goes in another direction.

There are 2 Erics running for the Senate in Missouri. Trump is leaving it to the people to decide!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-refuses-take-sides-backing-eric-missouris-combustible-gop-senate-primary-showdown

"After teasing hours earlier that he would be making an endorsement in the race, Trump declined to choose between two of the three front-runners in the primary - Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens.

Instead, Trump gave his support to both of them."

A Phytian endorsement from Trump!

(Greek History Slide! )

Delphi (/ˈdɛlfaɪ, ˈdɛlfi/; Greek: Δελφοί [ðelˈfi]),[a] in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ)

"Ruins of the ancient sacred precinct located on top of a scarp 500 metres (1,600 ft) maximum off the valley floor. The ancient Greeks considered the centre of the world to be in Delphi, marked by the stone monument known as the omphalos (navel). According to the Suda, Delphi took its name from the Delphyne, the she-serpent (drakaina) who lived there and was killed by the god Apollo (in other accounts the serpent was the male serpent (drakon) Python)." From Wikipedia

Also from Wikipedia;

"The Delphic Oracle, respected by the ancient Greeks for its unrivalled powers of prophecy, was renowned for the ambiguity of the replies it gave to those who consulted it. A famous instance concerns Pyrrhus (c319-272 BCE), king of Epirus, a region in the northwest of Greece, who intended to launch a campaign against the Romans. Consulting the oracle about the outcome of this course of action, he received a reply which is preserved in the Latin version of the Roman poet Ennius (c239-c169 BCE) (Annales 174):

Aio te, Aeacida, Romanos vincere posse.

This ambiguous sentence means either ‘Son of Aeacus, I say that you can conquer the Romans’ or ‘Son of Aeacus, I say that the Romans can conquer you.’ Pyrrhus, considering only the first alternative, embarked on his campaign, but when he was defeated, the oracle was able to claim that it was the second alternative that represented the true interpretation of its prophecy.

Whichever Eric wins Trump can say he endorsed him!

Missouri fields problematic candidates for Federal office while doing well in the State house.

Eric Greitens is a former Democrat, former SpecialForces and a formerGovernor who had to resign. I consider him a nut job opportunist but other like his antics.

Eric Schmitt is the current Attorney General with a good conservative record but he has Jeff Roe as a pollster advisor — the negative guy that got Ted Cruze fighting with Trump.

Lastly the fake Tea Party princess Vickie Hartzler who pissed off Trump wants to move from congress to the Senate.

Roe could wreck anything and I was fine with Schmitt. I moved to NC so I don’t get to vote anyway and Pubbies are a train wreck here too

Trump is a former democrat as well. Greitens resigned because the legal bills were mounting and at that time, the wife was pressuring him. If you don't believe it was a set up, you haven't done your homework. The main thing he was guilty of is having the tryst with the skank hairdresser, which he owned. The rest of the garbage was a fabrication by the Missouri swamp, which is almost as deep as D.C.'s

It wasn't just the 'affair' and the false accusations, but that Greitens was clamping down on lobby gifts and the special 'tax' rebates handed out like candy to rich developers and others.

Schmidt is backed by McConnell's big money donars and other D.C. swamp (sewer) creatures.

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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s campaign is downplaying the importance of President Donald J. Trump’s endorsement after the 45th president slammed his campaign last night over a poll Republican strategists say was false.