"There's a good 35 percent of the Republican base who believe the allegations against Greitens are a witch hunt or 'just an affair,' " said James Harris, a veteran GOP political consultant in Jefferson City, Mo. "The governor's defenders have done a very good job of using messaging very similar to the president's to characterize this as a liberal prosecutor's witch hunt. But, of course, there's never been an allegation that the president hit or duct-taped a woman." The woman with whom Greitens had the affair alleged that he bound her wrists to exercise equipment in his basement.