The entire slate of Republican hopefuls are pro-Trump 2020 election deniers. That so dismayed former GOP Senator John Danforth that he has recruited John Woods, a conservative lawyer who worked for the House’s January 6th investigation committee, to mount an independent campaign.
That’s adding yet another wild card to the wild Senate race in a state that’s known for messy elections. Missouri is, after all, the place where in 2000 a dead man won a Senate seat (Democratic Governor Mel Carnahan, who died in a plane crash three weeks before the election, beat the incumbent, GOP Senator John Ashcroft) and where in 2012 the GOP Senate nominee, Todd Akin, gave Democrats an unlikely win by insisting there was such a thing as “legitimate rape.”
“If Eric Greitens wins the nomination and John Woods draws some of the more moderate Republicans, those two factors could realistically open the door for Democrats in a statewide race,” Manion says.
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