Eric Schmitt actually said...

"Most average Russians are still on the side of President Putin right now."

"It can be very hard pill to swallow I think for the rest of the world to be lifting sanctions at a time when Putin is basically destroying this country before our own eyes."

"This very brutal campaign that he thought was going to go very quickly. Instead, it has been bogged down."

"There's a lot of questions that were left unanswered when he left and so that's going to be his job in the campaign."