The sitting attorney general is running against a Donald Trump lawyer.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey arrives to testify during the House Homeland Security Committee hearing on"Havoc in the Heartland: How Secretary Mayorkas' Failed Leadership Has Impacted the States" on Jan. 10, 2024.The GOP civil war has reached a new beachhead: blood-red Missouri.
"I think this is going to be a lot of those factors here as far as a microcosm on establishment versus outsider, Trump versus traditional Republican," said one unaffiliated Missouri GOP strategist. "This is definitely going to be a race that's going to show how poignant one side or the other is and if anyone is able to fend off a funded Trump candidate without a lot of baggage at this point, in Scharf's case.
A super PAC supporting Scharf, who is backed by well-heeled outside groups such as the Club for Growth and the Concord Fund,saying that "Trump relies on Will Scharf as one of his lawyers to defend him from legal persecution and election interference" and that Scharf is "taking on the entire legal and media establishment.
Former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Manhattan criminal court in New York, May 20, 2024."If you're a Missouri Republican, or I'd say, Republican voter in general, they believe that Trump, a lot of these various cases and charges are a stretch or reach," said a third Missouri GOP strategist. "And Will Scharf's ability to say, 'I'm a Trump lawyer,' the primary voters will say he is at the tip of the spear fighting and defending liberty.
" is a good pro-Trump, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life conservative," the third GOP strategist said. "I don't think you can really find anything wrong with his record as attorney general."Bailey's campaign has highlighted the litany of lawsuits he's filed against the Biden administration and action on culture war issues, including local lightning rods such as going after former St.
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