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TexasTowelie

(116,493 posts) Tue Jul 19, 2022, 10:56 AM Jul 2022

Ex-Jan. 6 Panel Lawyer on Track for Missouri US Senate Run

Last edited Tue Jul 19, 2022, 12:24 PM - Edit history (1)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former senior investigator for the U.S. House committee probing the Jan. 6 insurrection on Monday said he has enough signatures to get on the ballot as an independent candidate for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat.

John F. Wood said he has the 10,000 signatures needed to appear on the ballot for retiring GOP Sen. Roy Blunt ’s seat.

Wood said he’ll keep collecting signatures from registered voters to make sure he meets the threshold. The signatures still need to be certified by the Missouri secretary of state. The deadline to submit signatures to run as an independent is Aug. 1.

Wood's candidacy comes as some Republican leaders express concern that former Gov. Eric Greitens might prevail in a 21-candidate field for the Republican nomination for the seat in the Aug. 2 primary, then lose in November because of the sex and campaign finance scandals that pushed him from office in 2018.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-07-18/ex-jan-6-panel-lawyer-on-track-for-missouri-us-senate-run

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Ex-Jan. 6 Panel Lawyer on Track for Missouri US Senate Run (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2022 OP

Greitens is going to get his votes. lastlib Jul 2022 #1

I'll go ahead and remove my closing comment TexasTowelie Jul 2022 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author TexasTowelie Jul 2022 #3

Former Senator Danforth Rebl2 Jul 2022 #4

Schmitt is leading jonstl08 Jul 2022 #5

lastlib

(24,790 posts)

1. Greitens is going to get his votes.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2022, 12:09 PM

Jul 2022

Wood is more likely to get repuglikan votes who don't like the Greiten scandals and would've otherwise held their noses and voted for the Democratic candidate. I don't see him peeling that many repuglikan votes away from Greitens.

TexasTowelie

(116,493 posts)

2. I'll go ahead and remove my closing comment

Reply to lastlib (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 19, 2022, 12:23 PM

Jul 2022

in deference to people more familiar with the political situation.

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Rebl2

(14,552 posts)

4. Former Senator Danforth

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2022, 01:22 PM

Jul 2022

Is the one backing him. The last person he backed was Josh Hawley. Yea nothing could go wrong here with this guy.

jonstl08

(412 posts)

5. Schmitt is leading

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jul 26, 2022, 02:44 PM

Jul 2022

Poll just out here in Missouri shows Greitens losing to Eric Schmitt by double digits. If Schmitt is the nominee it does not look good for the Dems since not many GOP voters will vote for Wood instead of Schmitt. Schmitt is just horrible but not the baggage Greitens had.

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