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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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Jun 20, 2022

I think that Shaye and her mother today put the human toll in front of the American people, the human toll of Donald Trump`s effort to overturn the will of the American people.

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Jun 20, 2022

Yes, this has been done really well. And let`s be honest. Kevin McCarthy really screwed up.

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Jun 20, 2022

I think that Barbara is right. I think this committee is doing a very smart thing. They are really presenting discrete piles of evidence that translate into a sprawling conspiracy to fraudulently overturn the will of the American people.

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Jun 20, 2022

I think you said Claire. You met Barbara.

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Jun 20, 2022

Everybody, please, remember, there’s no evidence of fraud. They had -- everybody asked them, show me the evidence. Give me the names.

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Jun 13, 2022

The other bucket that he really may have trouble with, the Trump Organization might and Donald Trump himself, is consumer protection laws.

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Jun 9, 2022

history is going to be kind to Liz Cheney, history is going to be cruel to other Republicans.

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Jun 9, 2022

he’s worried about Donald Trump’s candidates winning Republican primaries, which makes it harder for him to take back power.

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May 31, 2022

What they`re going to do is they`re going to enforce the law and make sure people have a right to vote.

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May 31, 2022

I think we have to be honest that this is tough this year. Inflation is brutal, and it`s real to people.

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May 31, 2022

if they raised the specter of fraud in elections, it undermines people’s faith in elections, and that damage has been done, and they want to continue to do that damage, and that is something we all need to worry about.

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May 31, 2022

we`ve got to fight that change message with the extremism, the fact that they are trying to tell women in America if you are raped you must carry your baby -- that pregnancy to term.

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May 18, 2022

Oz is negative or sky high in the Republican Party. I don’t see him driving record turnout. I don’t see that happening. Whereas I think John Fetterman is going to do a very good job of relating to some voters that maybe had drifted away…

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May 17, 2022

If Oz wins this primary, he will have won the primary, according to Donald Trump. If Oz doesn’t win this primary, it’s because somebody cheated, according to Donald Trump.

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May 17, 2022

When I got reelected in 2012, there was a rush of Republican leaders saying that they did not accept that a woman who had been raped would not be able to get a legal abortion.

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May 17, 2022

They have gone so extreme. That is really where we can make some hay in the suburbs that Steve Kornacki just pointed out.

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May 17, 2022

I think there are certainly Trump loyalists, but on the other hand, Joe Biden did win Pennsylvania, whether Donald Trump likes it or not.

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May 9, 2022

I`ll tell you who is above the law in the United States of America, that`s the Supreme Court.

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May 9, 2022

some transparency is not going to hurt anything here. American people understanding more about how this works is not going to hurt anything.

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May 9, 2022

This Supreme Court does not realize the damage it is going to do, has done to the institution.

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May 9, 2022

It is so hard to read, as a woman and as a lawyer. It’s painful to read it.

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May 3, 2022

Well, I think we`re going to have this subject. And that`s what was so ironic about this opinion, is Alito in this draft opinion, says that this decision divided America, Roe v. Wade did. Well, I got news for him. He has divided America…

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May 3, 2022

So spare me, Mitch McConnell, that somehow the Democrats have politicized the court.

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May 3, 2022

If you do not know what your Senate candidate for the U.S. Senate says about this, should there be a law protecting women and their rights in this country passed by Congress?

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Apr 30, 2022

There have been a lot of conversions to Trump. Are they permanent? Is this the permanent Republican Party?

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