{"id":1583683,"date":"2022-08-01T21:50:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T01:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1583683"},"modified":"2022-08-01T21:50:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T01:50:19","slug":"trump-endorses-eric-greitens-in-missouri-gop-senate-primary-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-endorses-eric-greitens-in-missouri-gop-senate-primary-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Endorses Eric Greitens in Missouri GOP Senate Primary Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Ftrump-endorses-eric-greitens-in-missouri-gop-senate-primary-race%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=1583683&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>Former president Donald Trump has officially thrown his support behind \u201cEric\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-missouri\">Missouri<\/a> primary, which has pitted former Missouri governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-eric-greitens\">Eric Greitens<\/a> against Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt, among other candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the particular Eric he endorses remains unclear, in what may be one of Trump\u2019s craftiest endorsements yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a big election in the great state of Missouri, and we must send a MAGA champion and true warrior to the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-senate\">Senate<\/a>, someone who will fight for border security, election integrity, our military and great veterans, together with having a powerful toughness on crime and the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a person who will not back down to the radical Left lunatics who are destroying our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI trust the great people of Missouri, on this one, to make up their own minds, much as they did when they gave me landslide victories in the 2016 and 2020 elections, and I am therefore proud to announce that Eric has my complete and total endorsement!\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/108749916238646651\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess Trump enjoys being a comic,\u201d Mark McCloskey, another candidate in the race, told The Epoch Times on Aug. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Greitens responded on Twitter by accepting Trump\u2019s remarks as an endorsement:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honored to have the support of President Trump! We will MAGA! \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NljSJqEQG5\">pic.twitter.com\/NljSJqEQG5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Greitens (@EricGreitens) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricGreitens\/status\/1554229225862864899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So did Schmitt\u2019s election team:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8President Donald Trump Endorses ERIC SCHMITT for U.S. Senate\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>Statement from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eric_Schmitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Eric_Schmitt<\/a>: \u201cIt is truly an honor to have President Trump\u2019s endorsement in the Senate race. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WkHi6o0qDE\">pic.twitter.com\/WkHi6o0qDE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Team Schmitt for US Senate (@Schmitt4Senate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schmitt4Senate\/status\/1554235531231469568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is truly an honor to have [former] president Trump\u2019s endorsement in the Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the only America First candidate in this race, I have fought for election integrity, fought to secure our borders by pushing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Donald Trump has officially thrown his support behind \u201cEric\u201d in the Missouri primary, which has pitted former Missouri governor Eric Greitens against Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt, among other candidates. 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