In 2013, Time Magazine named him on its list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2014 Fortune Magazine listed him as one of the world’s 50 greatest leaders. He wrote several books and became a regular fixture on the lecture circuit and in the media. When he came home from Iraq, Greitens founded The Mission Continues, a nonprofit organization aimed at empowering wounded and disabled veterans to begin new lives as leaders here at home. Throughout his time in school, Greitens did humanitarian work around the globe.Īfter leaving Oxford, he joined the military, becoming a Navy SEAL in 2001 and eventually serving in Southeast Asia, Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq.
His doctoral thesis investigated how international humanitarian organizations can best serve war-affected children. Selected as a Rhodes scholar, he furthered his education at the University of Oxford in England, where he earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. He studied ethics, philosophy and public policy at Duke University in North Carolina. His mother was a special education teacher and his father worked at the Department of Agriculture. His campaign message was simple: Missouri’s government was teeming with “corrupt career politicians,” and the only one who could fix it was an outsider with no loyalties to a broken system. Greitens stormed onto the Missouri political scene in 2016, running for governor despite having never sought public office before. Eric Greitens waits to be introduced on April 16, 2021, at the Macon County Lincoln Days dinner (Andrew Murphy photo). It’s kind of the perfect environment and race for a candidate like Eric Greitens to win.” “And the Republican base is angrier today than it was in 2016, when he first ran. “It’s a large primary field, so the nominee will probably only need 28% of the vote,” said James Harris, a veteran GOP consultant who is not working for any of the Senate candidates. Perhaps most important to his success, Greitens has managed to capitalize on a splintered GOP field that has thus far prevented the party from rallying around an alternative. On the litany of scandals that led to Greitens’ resignation, Conklin said: “There’s a lot of people willing to give him the second chance.” “People are just tired of listening to accounts of he said, she said,” Sid Conklin, Randolph County coroner and a Republican candidate for presiding county commissioner, said of the former First Lady’s allegations. Trump will need Eric by his side helping him finish draining the swamp.”Įven the latest explosive allegations by former First Lady Sheena Greitens - that he physically abused her and his children and became so unstable in the months leading up to his resignation in 2018 that his access to firearms had to be limited - have seemingly failed to dent his popularity. “I’m so sick of those idiots playing dirty pool to get rid of anyone who won’t go along with them.”īut the number one reason Bouse supports the former governor?
“ I believe he can do great things for Missouri.”īouse likes that “everyone on the left is against (Greitens),” he said. “He was doing a great job as governor before all the crap started that forced him out,” said Jeff Bouse, a Greitens supporter from Cuba, Missouri. His staunchest supporters long ago waved away accounts of his alleged transgressions, and see him coming under attack from both Republicans and Democrats as a badge of honor. And everybody in Missouri is standing up and saying that we’re going to take our country back.” 6 and their drive-by impeachments, people have figured out their game. Everything they put President Trump through with the Russia collusion hoax and Hillary Clinton spying on the campaign and Jan. “After everything that they’ve done,” he told a crowd in Hannibal earlier this year.
He’s done it with a campaign message short on policy and heavy on grievances that helped fuel the rise of former President Donald Trump - all while casting both as victims of betrayal by RINOs (Republicans In Name Only). Roy Blunt last year, Greitens has sat at or near the top of every poll of the crowded GOP primary. Since joining the race for the seat of retiring U.S.
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See the rest of the series here.įour years after being forced from office and set adrift into political exile, Greitens is on the cusp of completing his comeback. This is the first in a series of profiles of the leading candidates for Missouri’s open U.S.
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