If somebody would have told me when I came to the United States Senate in 2007 that in a mere short 13 years, the Republican Party's Big Tent would be catering to Holocaust deniers, Nazi sympathizers, and white supremacists, I would say, you know, that’s just that’s not a realistic plot for a movie.
McCaskill expresses disbelief at the current state of the Republican Party, highlighting its acceptance of extremist views.
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I have won when the polls said I couldn't and I have lost when the polls said I would win, so I am not a big believer in all of the horse race stuff.
This is really, really bad. What they’re saying is, if you criticize the president of the United States, as an elected member of Congress, we will silence you.
I think that, fundamentally, voters do understand that we have very, very low unemployment. They see it in their families, that everybody has jobs, everybody can get jobs, their jobs are paying slightly better.
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