A measure of where we are in the Missouri GOP pre-primary to replace Roy Blunt in the Senate. If we thought the GOP was moving back toward anything remotely resembling reality, guess again. Thread 🧵/1
Rep. Jason Smith is gunning for the “Biden’s Not My President” with daily take-downs of policies that have 70% approval among the voting public. Four years of kissing Trump’s orange piles seems to be paying off. He’s garnered an audience with some of Q-elite in elected office.
Rep. Ann Wagner has staked out the Bible verse, pro-life fan club. But occasionally she likes to remind voters that her pro-life ideology stops where her support of the pro-murder, “everyone gets a death machine” second amendment starts. Irony 🚨 she’s also anti-human trafficking
MO AG Eric Schmitt, riding the wave of having helped recruit for the insurrection, is fashioning himself a “fighter” suing everyone from China to our own federal government. He’ll fight for you, unless that you’re a Missourian who was defrauded by the Trump campaign.
Rep. Vicki Hartzler representing the “border” district MO-4 (shown below) has been stoking the fears of an invasion of immigrants into middle Missouri. Clearly, she sees the path to victory in a “Mexican are rapists” agenda and assumes her voters can’t read a map.
Eric Greitens is just carrying on as if he never sexually assaulted a women or misused assets from his charity for his political career or laundered dark money to circumvent campaign finance laws. Like 2018 was some kind of Thanos blip in his political career.
Lastly, we have Billy Long. He’s carried Trump’s water for 4 years and sucked up to him like no other Missouri politician even carrying around a mock $45 bill with Trump’s mug on it. His Twitter feed has become a non-stop Fox News and conspiracy re-tweet machine.
To be clear, not all of these folks have declared their run. Some are still testing the waters to see how much crazy 💩 they’re gonna have to shovel in order to garner those sweet insider-trading tips that come with a seat in the Senate.
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