{"id":1580771,"date":"2022-07-30T22:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T02:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1580771"},"modified":"2022-07-30T22:49:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T02:49:32","slug":"eric-greitens-and-vicky-hartzler-speak-with-the-epoch-times-as-missouri-senate-primary-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-greitens-and-vicky-hartzler-speak-with-the-epoch-times-as-missouri-senate-primary-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Greitens and Vicky Hartzler Speak With The Epoch Times as Missouri Senate Primary Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feric-greitens-and-vicky-hartzler-speak-with-the-epoch-times-as-missouri-senate-primary-approaches%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1580771&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Two of the top three contenders in the Aug. 2 Republican primary in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-missouri\">Missouri<\/a>, former Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-eric-greitens\">Eric Greitens<\/a> and Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), discussed their records in interviews with The Epoch Times as Republican voters decide who will have their support.<\/p>\n<p>Another leading candidate, Missouri Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-eric-schmitt\">Eric Schmitt<\/a>, did not speak to The Epoch Times by press time.<\/p>\n<p> Greitens: \u2018I\u2019m the MAGA candidate\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>In a July 22 phone interview with The Epoch Times, Greitens explained why he thinks Missouri voters should choose him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the MAGA candidate in this race\u2014the America First candidate in this race,\u201d the former Navy SEAL and Rhodes Scholar said. Greitens served as governor of Missouri before resigning in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>While many Republican candidates seek the mantle of MAGA, Greitens has a particularly strong case.<\/p>\n<p>His team includes Kimberley Guilfoyle, former advisor to President Donald Trump and fianc\u00e9e of Donald Trump, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the Greitens campaign released footage of Trump Jr. and Greitens shooting targets together.<\/p>\n<p>Greiten\u2019s backers also include Rudy Giuliani, General Michael Flynn, Sebastian Gorka, Steve Cortes, Dennis Prager, and Ryan Zinke.<\/p>\n<p>So far, however, Trump has not formally endorsed Greitens or any other candidate in the race, though he did announce on July 11 that he does not back Hartzler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we\u2019ve said from the beginning, all the conversations that our team has with President Trump and his team, we obviously keep confidential, because this is a decision for President Trump and his team to make in the time and manner that he chooses\u2014but we\u2019re honored to have so much support from President Trump\u2019s true fighters,\u201d Greitens said in answer to a question about a prospective Trump endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>Greitens\u2019 campaign has been plagued by accusations of domestic abuse from his ex-wife, former First Lady of Missouri Sheena Chestnut Greitens, as well as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the top three contenders in the Aug. 2 Republican primary in Missouri, former Gov. Eric Greitens and Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), discussed their records in interviews with The Epoch Times as Republican voters decide who will have their support. Another leading candidate, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, did not speak to The Epoch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}