Schmitt: Future of America is at stake
Missouri Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Eric Schmitt says the future of our country is at stake with the upcoming midterms.
Schmitt made a stop in Joplin Friday to talk about his campaign as we approach the August 2 ballot.
“My job as your attorney general is pretty simple: I get up in the morning, I go to work, I sue Joe Biden and I go home,” Schmitt said to applause. “I wake up the next day, and I do it all over again.”
A new survey from Emerson College Polling/The Hill show that the tables have turned in the primary. Schmitt took the lead in the race, receiving 33% of the votes. U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler came in second with 21%, and Eric Greitens fell behind with only 16%, a 10% drop in his support from the previous month.
“I feel good, there’s a lot of momentum. That’s what we’ve felt on the ground for awhile now and the polling is starting to reflect that,” said Schmitt. “People are ready for someone who’s going to take the fight to Washington, not somebody who’s been there and not done much, and certainly not a quitter, which the former Governor is, so we’re going to run through the tape here and get this thing done.”
Schmitt says we need to fight back against President Biden and his administration’s push towards socialism. “This has been the most radical agenda we’ve ever seen.”
“When Republicans take back the House and take back the Senate you can start talking about tax cuts again and regulatory reform…the things people want to make their lives easier so they’re not paying absorbent prices at the gas pumps or milk being more expensive…and this has a lot to do with Obam– or uh, Joe Biden’s war on our community.”
Schmitt touts his experience as the state’s top prosecutor to help him be a fighter for the people, nodding to his penchant for lawsuits, including over mask mandates, gun laws, the southern border and issues like Critical Race Theory in schools.
Schmitt, Greitens and Hartzler have all recently distanced themselves from Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Schmitt said McConnell hasn’t endorsed him and that he does not endorse him for leadership either.
Many await the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, who has only said that he would not be endorsing Hartzler in the race.
The Associated Press contributed to this report