National and state Republicans have spent a year hoping someone — anyone — would prevent disgraced former Gov. Eric Greitens from becoming the Republican Senate nominee in Missouri
“I think it’s a case of the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Gregg Keller, a Republican strategist in the state working with a pro-Schmitt super PAC. “I think Missouri Republican primary voters have, and rightly so, a lot of skepticism about what they read in the press.
The new polls out Monday aren’t the only ones to show Greitens falling to third place. An early July survey by The Tarrance Group, conducted for the anti-Greitens super PAC Show Me, had the three ranked in the same order. And a July 20 memo sent to Hartzler donors and obtained by POLITICO, meanwhile, also included recent polling showing Greitens in third place. The OnMessage poll found Schmitt at 26 percent, Hartzler at 24 percent and Greitens at 21 percent, with a 2.
Unlike the explosive allegations in 2018 that Greitens tied up his hairstylist in his basement and sexually assaulted her, ultimately leading to his resignation from office, the more recent claims by his ex-wife — coupled with millions of dollars in attack ads highlighting them — have proven persuasive with Republicans who had long held out for Greitens.
The appearance — and Greitens’ declining poll numbers — come after Trump in an interview that aired July 8 called Greitens “the one the Democrats legitimately want to run against” and “a little controversial,” but added he has “endorsed controversial people before.” “I’m happy I was wrong,” said James Harris, a Republican strategist in the state who previously believed a Greitens nomination looked inevitable. “I thought at first Greitens would be tough to be defeated, or a group wouldn’t really materialize and go after him. What we’ve seen is Show Me Values PAC has had lead on Greitens, and he’s been declining in any poll you’ve looked at over the last couple weeks as they’ve educated people.
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