There is “not a need for Eric Greitens to be in public life,” an influential Trumpworld figure told The Daily Beast, while suggesting the candidate take some time off and sort out his personal life.

Select Trumpworld figures are also weighing how nominating Greitens might affect GOP chances of taking back the Senate.

His most recent inflammatory television ad, combined with his well-documented personal baggage, leaves a possibility that a Democratic candidate could beat Greitens in the general if he won the GOP nomination.

That possibility was one the Greitens campaign all but scoffed at.

“If these clowns really believe that Governor Greitens should not be a candidate, why is he leading the entire field by a mile in recent public polling? What does that say about their preferred candidates?” Greitens campaign manager Dylan Johnson told The Daily Beast. “These swamp creatures and grifters know their time at the trough is finished. That’s why they’re scared of America First champion Governor Greitens.”