The prospect of Eric Greitens capturing the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Missouri was already terrifying to his party’s leaders.
He had been forced out of the governor’s office in 2018, resigning to settle felony charges and avoid impeachment by a Republican legislative supermajority.
Yet despite all that, he’s consistently led in polls of GOP primary voters, causing party leaders to publicly fret that his scandal-plagued resume could cost the party an otherwise safe U.S. Senate seat — especially if any other skeletons emerged from his closet.
Those fears seemed to be confirmed on Monday, when the former governor’s ex-wife accused him of physically abusing her and his children.
The allegations, included in a sworn affidavit filed by former Missouri First Lady Sheena Greitens as part of an ongoing child custody dispute, claim he became so unstable in the months before his resignation in 2018 that his access to firearms had to be limited.
The news rocked the already chaotic GOP Senate primary, where multiple candidates have been jockeying for position in the hopes of being the party’s Greitens alternative. And it set off alarm bells in Washington, D.C., where Republican hopes of capturing a Senate majority this November could be put at risk if Democrats can make Missouri competitive.
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