Eric Greitens says as senator he would oppose McConnell for Republican leader

Published September 21, 2021 7:17pm ET



GOP Senate candidate and former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, who resigned the Missouri governorship in 2018 amid multiple scandals, said Tuesday that he would not support Sen. Mitch McConnell as Republican leader should he be elected to the U.S. Senate.

Greitens told Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist who was both fired and pardoned by former President Donald Trump, on his podcast Tuesday that “we need new leadership in the U.S. Senate.”

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