‘RINO hunting’: Are extremists costing Republicans elections?

A SWAT team barges into a home. Music intensifies as weapons are drawn. A man carrying a gun emerges from the light to look directly into the camera and says, “Join the MAGA crew. Get a RINO hunting permit. There’s no bagging limit, no tagging limit and it doesn’t expire until we save our country.”

It’s a scene from a campaign video for the frontrunner for U.S. Senate in Missouri, Republican candidate Eric Greitens.

The disgraced ex-governor left office in a scandal and now he’s likely to win a Senate seat. Greitens isn’t the only one to call out “RINOs” or what some refer to as “Republican In Name Only.”

At the Texas GOP convention, hecklers confronted lawmakers Cornyn, Cruz and Crenshaw.

“You’re a RINO,” some critics called out to elected officials in attendance.

Have extreme candidates cost the Republican Party elections and is the party divided between moderates and those on the extreme right?

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and NewsNation senior contributor George Will weighed in Monday while appearing on NewsNation’s “On Balance with Leland Vittert.”