Merrick Garland is all we have to talk about. If you want to talk about the road to making Supreme Court nominees 100 percent political, that was Mitch McConnell, with the assistance of the Republican Caucus, that did that.
McCaskill discusses the political nature of Supreme Court nominations and references Mitch McConnell's role.
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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.
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 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.
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