Claire McCaskill: “Please be aware that I will respond if I hear words like `disaster,' `stunned,' `throwing money at contractors,' or `no…”

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 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.

This is not Joe Biden. We have some of the least inflation in the developed world.

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.