Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Right-Wing Media Resurrect a Republican Outcast

Party leaders are helpless to keep a disgraced former Missouri governor off the comeback trail.

March 23, 2021 at 7:30 AM EDT

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

Greitens? Really?
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Why yes, the Republican Party is at it again. This time, it’s in Missouri, where former Governor Eric Greitens has announced that he’s running for that state’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2022. He’s probably the front-runner for the Republican nomination.

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