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Claire McCaskill

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Claire McCaskill is an American politician and attorney who served as the United States Senator from Missouri from 2007 to 2019. She was the first woman elected to the Senate from Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party, McCaskill focused on issues such as healthcare, military support, and government accountability during her tenure in the Senate. She played a significant role in various legislative efforts and was known for her outspoken views on military contracting and defense spending.

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Oct 12, 2020

I also think she will be strong in terms of pointing out some of the obvious things that Trump has said unequivocally that this nominee to the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade and will overturn the ACA.

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Oct 9, 2020

Yes, it is the right read. And you know, what's really interesting, Chris, is we're beginning to see cracks in the very firm foundation of all of his minions in the Senate that have R behind their name.

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Oct 9, 2020

You know, file this under outrage fatigue. It is beyond outrageous that in the United States of America, a few weeks before the election, the President is asking his department of justice to arrest his political opponents, to jail them, to…

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Oct 9, 2020

It is -- it is really that they are all scared to death. The only hope they have, they are putting all their eggs in the basket of the hearing of Amy Coney Barrett next week.

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Oct 7, 2020

I thought particularly she was effective on pointing out the debt that he has and the American people have a right to know.

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Oct 7, 2020

And that is if doctors and experts say it's safe, she's first in line. And by doing that, what she was saying to everyone, we all know that Trump is not listening to the doctors and the experts.

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Oct 7, 2020

And one of the things just as fascinating to me is that Pence will sit there and lie about COVID and the response to COVID and their respective science. And it's like he doesn't think any of us have been watching. It's like he doesn't…

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Oct 7, 2020

Well, let me start with Pence. He was patronizing which drove all the women crazy. And he was boring which lost most of the men.

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Oct 6, 2020

If I lost my seat because I got 20 million people health care, I can get another job. I'm employable.

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Oct 6, 2020

What does Kamala need to do tonight? She needs to make points to show that she has a firm grip on the policy that she and Joe Biden want to bring forth to the people in this country.

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Oct 6, 2020

But, maybe most importantly, Joy, she's got to make people be comfortable with her.

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Sep 29, 2020

I do think that Joe Biden did a pretty good job tonight. He did get in at the end about uniting the country that this shouldn't be about who runs what city?

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Sep 29, 2020

I thought Joe Biden, by and large, showed the kind of self-control but we used to define as presidential. I thought Donald Trump showed exactly who he is, a bully, who is unmoored, who is chaotic, who has no answers.

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Sep 29, 2020

It was a terrible thing to happen in our democracy. And I am really like headed up to here with anybody saying that there's some kind of false equivalency between these two debate participants.

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Sep 18, 2020

Mitch McConnell only wants to hold on to power so this is a tricky path for him to navigate.

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Sep 18, 2020

Well, the American people respect fairness and everyone knows what Mitch McConnell did in 2016.

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Sep 7, 2020

Why were the other world leaders there? How did they manage to get there? Why was the rain not a problem for them?

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Sep 7, 2020

I will tell you, the military leadership that has been maligned last week, you know, it's so funny because Trump spends days saying, I didn't criticize the military and then has a press conference and criticized the active duty military…

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Sep 7, 2020

That's the commander in chief they've got. That's why his numbers are plummeting with active military right now.

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Aug 26, 2020

It is unbelievable how many lies were told, from the president protecting pre-existing conditions to that he's brought the troops home, to the fact that Angela Merkel respects him, I mean, all of them told just blatant lies.

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Aug 26, 2020

All of these speeches were taped with the exception of Pence's. Every single one of them. And while last night I was angry, you know, tonight I found myself just feeling flat worn out by this festival of lies.

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Aug 26, 2020

there's going to be a lot of lying, because we know that Trump can't speak without lying. He will lie about what he's done. He will lie about promises that he claims he's kept, when he hasn't.

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Aug 26, 2020

it will be very ironic to the president to talk about law and order tonight while he's violating the law.

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Aug 26, 2020

This is Trump's America. These are the seeds that he has planted. This is the president that has failed to unite this country in a clarion call against racism.

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Aug 26, 2020

the Democrats have to prosecute their case.

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