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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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Sep 12, 2022

Third, he`s got a guy sitting on the Supreme Court whose wife is helping plot to overthrow the government.

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Sep 12, 2022

I don`t think so. I do not believe that there will be enough votes to do that, but I do think there is an opportunity to talk about a lot of ethics reform, term limits, and maybe age limits since the idea of a lifelong appointment I think…

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Sep 10, 2022

I think the filibuster is on life support. And I think if the Democrats pick up more seats, I think it will probably go away.

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Sep 10, 2022

I think the Democratic Party will benefit from really doing some navel-gazing about how can we get more young people to the forefront because young people are going to be really important to us in 2024.

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Sep 10, 2022

I think more importantly, what we're going to see, and this is what I really do believe, is that will we defy history by having the kind of turnout with the party who holds power and holds the presidency, will we have the kind of turnout…

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Sep 10, 2022

You don't take away a right that has been around for 50 years, and then you don't have a party go to the extremes of trying to make sure rape victims have to have forced birth.

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Sep 10, 2022

Maybe we'll learn that extremes are not healthy for general elections.

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Sep 10, 2022

I hope, I hope, I hope Matt keeps saying that everywhere he goes, that abortion really isn't an issue in this election.

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Sep 1, 2022

I think it`s a jump ball. And I think anybody who is watching tonight needs to realize that there`s lots of people that need to volunteer. And there`s lots of people that need to try to find five or $10 to give to their favorite candidate…

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Aug 31, 2022

there is something happening here. It should have happened a long time ago. But it got real today in terms of political damage that the liar that hangs up Mar-a-Lago has caused his political party.

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Aug 24, 2022

Well, first, I want everybody to slow down a little bit. We are still the underdogs in this election. And I am speaking as someone in 2018, we picked up 40 seats in the House but we still lost four senators.

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Aug 24, 2022

I think even though abortion wasn`t at the top of the list when you ask people in that poll what issues they cared about, when governments across the country are threatening to forced incest victims to give birth, that makes people angry…

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Aug 24, 2022

Just because more people are giving to Democratic candidates doesn`t mean there aren`t mega-donors in the back room writing five, 10, $20 million checks to try to get the candidates of their choice that are on the other side.

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Aug 22, 2022

This is an example this year where that has been turned on its head.

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Aug 22, 2022

I think Marco Rubio is in trouble.

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Aug 22, 2022

The suburban women of America. And Marco Rubio is one of many candidates who thinks the government should force birth on a victim of incest. That is not going to fly with American women. And I think they’re going to turn out.

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Aug 22, 2022

Trust me, women are motivated after the Dobbs decision.

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Aug 1, 2022

This is -- this was not expected to be this kind of result. They had a record turnout. What this shows in a state where Republican registrations outnumber Democrats, two to one that women are really upset that a fundamental right and…

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Jul 26, 2022

There is a risk to indicting a former president in terms of what it does to this country. But I believe in these circumstances, the risk is so much greater if they let this guy go.

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Jul 26, 2022

I believe in these circumstances, the risk is so much greater if they let this guy go with not any consequences.

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Jul 20, 2022

So, there are so many things here, so many layers.

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Jul 5, 2022

I think now, they have got a big body of evidence on intent, on his criminal intent. That he knew he had lost the election, and he wanted to steal power. And that`s fraud. It is a crime, it one of those years crimes that can be committed.

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Jul 5, 2022

I think Merrick Garland, if he is not totally awake now to the pressure that he is going to be facing, I think now for him not to indict, frankly, would cause this country more harm that even if he indicts and there is a hung jury or not a…

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Jun 23, 2022

One of my daughters had a miscarriage not very long ago. Right now in Missouri, it would be perfectly within reason for a law enforcement agency to request a search warrant to search her home, to search the doctor`s office to see if, in…

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Jun 22, 2022

Well, the first analysis was, would he be that different in the United States Senate than the other two viable candidates in the primary? Their voting records would have been about the same, Chris. They were all very conservative…

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