{"id":1585737,"date":"2022-08-02T22:01:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T02:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585737"},"modified":"2022-08-02T22:02:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T02:02:04","slug":"breaking-eric-schmitt-dominates-gop-primary-for-missouris-u-s-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-eric-schmitt-dominates-gop-primary-for-missouris-u-s-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Eric Schmitt Dominates GOP Primary For Missouri\u2019s U.S. Senate Seat"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fbreaking-eric-schmitt-dominates-gop-primary-for-missouris-u-s-senate-seat%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=1585737&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>Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt dominated Tuesday night in the Republican primary race for state\u2019s U.S. Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported that with 34% of the results counted, Schmitt was up 45.1% to Vicky Hartzler at 23.5% and Eric Greitens at 19.0%.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Wasserman, editor of the non-partisan Cook Political Report, tweeted: \u201cEric Schmitt (R) wins the #MOSEN GOP primary, defeating Vicky Hartzler (R), Eric Greitens (R) and others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;ve seen enough: Eric Schmitt (R) wins the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MOSEN?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MOSEN<\/a> GOP primary, defeating Vicky Hartzler (R), Eric Greitens (R) and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Redistrict\/status\/1554631156359897089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With his victory, Schmitt significantly boosts Republican\u2019s chances of keeping the seat after Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) announced that he was retiring.<\/p>\n<p>There was some angst over the summer that Greitens could win and that he would face an uphill battle to win in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Greitens, a lifelong Democrat who became a Republican when it was politically expedient for him to do so, attacked a new pro-gun law in the state late last year but then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/greitens-says-he-supports-missouri-gun-law-after-blowback\/article_cfeb1df2-7a26-5c63-89df-9b2dab6eb1a1.html\">reversed<\/a> course after facing substantial backlash.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, Greitens released an embarrassing campaign ad in which he stormed a house with a team of combat operators and said that he was issuing RINO (Republican in Name Only) hunting permits which was widely condemned for implied political violence.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt dominated Tuesday night in the Republican primary race for state\u2019s U.S. Senate seat. The New York Times reported that with 34% of the results counted, Schmitt was up 45.1% to Vicky Hartzler at 23.5% and Eric Greitens at 19.0%. Dave Wasserman, editor of the non-partisan Cook Political Report, tweeted: \u201cEric &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1585782,"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-1585737","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\/1585737","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1585782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}