John Wood officially running for U.S. Senate in Missouri as an independent

John Wood, former federal prosecutor and senior investigative counsel to the January 6 Committee, said the divisive politics shaping up in Missouri's U.S. Senate primaries prompted him to run as a mainstream independent candidate.
John Wood, formerly the U.S. Attorney in Kansas City and more recently the senior investigative counsel for the House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack, is running for U.S. Senate in Missouri.

Wood, who identifies as a mainstream Republican, will run as an independent. During a phone interview on Tuesday, Wood said deep political divisions across the United States prompted his candidacy.

“Nowhere is the division in America more evident than in our home state of Missouri, in this senate race where my party, the Republican Party, appears poised to nominate a disgraced former governor who just released an advertisement that seemed to glorify hunting down and shooting political enemies,” Wood said.