Claire McCaskill: “I have more respect than I can ever describe for the guy that is sitting to my immediate left.”

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.

This is never a referendum. Presidential elections, by the time they run around, is always, 'well, who do you like slightly better than the two you don't like?' So it is a binary choice.

There is an over-classification problem, and I was surprised Secretary Gates didn't mention it.

Candidly, he probably would, because what Trump and DeSantis having figured out is they have to win a general.