Eric Schmitt wins Missouri GOP Senate primary, NBC projects
a Greitens candidacy jeopardizing the party's hold on a Senate seat in a state that otherwise reliably votes Republicans into high office.
But the former president ultimately did not give Greitens a full-throated endorsement. Rather, he bizarrely endorsed "Eric" in the Missouri GOP Senate primary, where"I trust the Great People of Missouri, on this one, to make up their own minds," Trump said in a social media post on the eve of the primary.
Both Greitens and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt touted Trump's announcement as though it were a personal endorsement.showed Greitens had a smaller lead over a top Democratic primary candidate than either of his two biggest competitors in the Republican primary. After Sheena Greitens filed court documents in March alleging Eric Greitens abused her and their young son while they were married, numerous top Republicans called on Greitens to drop out.
"If you hit a woman or a child, you belong in handcuffs, not the United States Senate," said Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who had investigated Greitens when he was Missouri's attorney general.
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