Eric Schmitt wins Mo. GOP Senate primary

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt defeated a former governor

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two U.S. Representatives on his way to the Republican nomination for one of Missouri’s two U.S. Senate seats.

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Missouri’s senior Senator, Republican Roy Blunt, is retiring at the end of his term.

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Schmitt will face Trudy Busch Valentine, an heiress to the Anheuser-Busch brewing dynasty.

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Busch Valentine defeated Lucas Kunce in a close contest in the Democratic Primary.

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Schmitt received a bit of strange publicity on the eve of the election when former President Donald Trump hedged his bet

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announced he would be endorsing “ERIC”

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with the oddity being one of the other challengers was Missouri’s disgraced former governor

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