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March 11, 2021O'Fallon, Mo. |  By: AP

Is Blunt's exit an opening for ex-Gov. Greitens to return?


O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) - Eric Greitens' political future seemed doomed by scandal when he resigned as Missouri governor, but now he appears primed to test whether Sen. Roy Blunt's retirement provides a path for redemption.

Greitens was a political outsider when he was elected governor in 2016. By the end of his first year in office, he was getting buzz as a potential future presidential contender.

His political fortunes turned upside down in 2018 after reports surfaced about an affair in which he allegedly took a compromising photo and threatening to blackmail the woman he was involved with.