As Greitens drama roils Missouri GOP senate race, Dems seen gaining ground

"The rest of the fractured GOP field includes state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, U.S. Representatives Vicky Hartzler and Billy Long and attorney Mark McCloskey, who rose to notoriety in 2020 after being photographed awkwardly holding an AR-15 and threatening a peaceful procession of Black Lives Matter demonstrators as they passed his St. Louis mansion."

"But given the Supreme Court decision on abortion, having a woman who's a former nurse apparently portray herself as a centrist might also work well, in this November.""

"The rest of the fractured GOP field includes state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, U.S. Representatives Vicky Hartzler and Billy Long and attorney Mark McCloskey, who rose to notoriety in 2020 after being photographed awkwardly holding an AR-15 and threatening a peaceful procession of Black Lives Matter demonstrators as they passed his St. Louis mansion."

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"The rest of the fractured GOP field includes state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, U.S. Representatives Vicky Hartzler and Billy Long and attorney Mark McCloskey, who rose to notoriety in 2020 after being photographed awkwardly holding an AR-15 and threatening a peaceful procession of Black Lives Matter demonstrators as they passed his St. Louis mansion."

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"Missouri, after all, went for Donald Trump by double digits in both 2016 and 2020."

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"Missouri is, after all, the place where in 2000 a dead man won a Senate seat (Democratic Governor Mel Carnahan, who died in a plane crash three weeks before the election, beat the incumbent, GOP Senator John Ashcroft) and where in 2012 the GOP Senate nominee, Todd Akin, gave Democrats an unlikely win by insisting there was such a thing as "legitimate rape."nn"If Eric Greitens wins the nomination and John Woods draws some of the more moderate Republicans, those two factors could realistically open the door for Democrats in a statewide race," Manion says."

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"Missouri is, after all, the place where in 2000 a dead man won a Senate seat (Democratic Governor Mel Carnahan, who died in a plane crash three weeks before the election, beat the incumbent, GOP Senator John Ashcroft) and where in 2012 the GOP Senate nominee, Todd Akin, gave Democrats an unlikely win by insisting there was such a thing as "legitimate rape."nn"If Eric Greitens wins the nomination and John Woods draws some of the more moderate Republicans, those two factors could realistically open the door for Democrats in a statewide race," Manion says."

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"According to the most recent RealClearPolitics polling average, Greitens has the support of 24.3 percent of Missouri's GOP voters to Schmitt's 22.3 percent and Hartzler's 18.5 percent."

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"By all signs, no Democrat should have a serious chance of becoming the next Show-Me State senator, especially not with the national mood so sour about President Joe Biden's handling of the economy."

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"That so dismayed former GOP Senator John Danforth that he has recruited John Woods, a conservative lawyer who worked for the House's January 6th investigation committee, to mount an independent campaign."

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"That so dismayed former GOP Senator John Danforth that he has recruited John Woods, a conservative lawyer who worked for the House's January 6th investigation committee, to mount an independent campaign."

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""If you would have asked me six months ago, would a Democrat win this seat, I would say gosh, no, especially in a midterm election year where Biden's popularity is low and inflation is high," says Anita Manion, a political science professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis."

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"The new Show Me Values super PAC, backed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other party insiders, is unleashing a $1 million fusillade of ads against Greitens over the coming month leading up to the primary.nn"

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"Trump saw his biggest gains between 2016 and 2020 in Missouri in these counties that borders Kentucky and Teessee, but there Kunce was on a Saturday last month, trailed by this Newsweek reporter, as he gave a stump speech to about 20 people in Perryville, followed by spending several hours in Howardsville, population 434, meeting local activists about the prospects of redeveloping a shuttered high school."

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"Another clean-cut young military veteran, Jason Kander, came within three points from unseating GOP Senator Roy Blunt in 2016 in the same election in which Hillary Clinton lost to Trump by almost 19 points, Kunce notes."

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"Another clean-cut young military veteran, Jason Kander, came within three points from unseating GOP Senator Roy Blunt in 2016 in the same election in which Hillary Clinton lost to Trump by almost 19 points, Kunce notes."

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"Another clean-cut young military veteran, Jason Kander, came within three points from unseating GOP Senator Roy Blunt in 2016 in the same election in which Hillary Clinton lost to Trump by almost 19 points, Kunce notes."

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