Several notable U.S. Senate candidates were working the crowd at an annual Lincoln Dinner celebration put on by the Lafayette County Republican Party.
The recent event, at a packed gymnasium in Wellington, Mo., was an opportunity for diehard GOP voters in the rural county outside of Kansas City to mingle with hopefuls seeking to succeed the retiring Sen. Roy Blunt.
Rep. Billy Long was among the Senate candidates. He was passing out stickers asking voters if they were "Fed Up" with what was going on in Washington, D.C., a campaign moniker he's adopted since first running for the U.S. House in 2010.
Long is banking on the possibility that the race will get so nasty that Republican voters will wonder, he said, if "there is a fat auctioneer in Springfield we can vote for."
"If I can get some oxygen and get the people to know who I am, I can win the thing," Long said.
Long may be right about the tenor of Missouri's Senate contest, primarily because of one candidate who was absent from the Lincoln Dinner: former Gov. Eric Greitens.
After resigning from office in 2018 following a series of scandals, even Greitens' most boisterous critics believe he can win a 21-person Senate primary.
He's hoping Missouri Republicans will flock to his message that emphasizes ties to former President Donald Trump's agenda and approach.
"We need fighters who are willing to do what it takes to take our country back," Greitens told reporters back in February. "To take our country back from the left —...
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