5/20/2023 0 Comments Calair mccaskil“I’m truly sad that my friend Claire ran the campaign that she did that failed to produce any real enthusiasm or engagement with urban voters.” “To me, this was a winnable race,” Clay told McClatchy in 2018. Two years earlier, the now-deposed longtime rep had a critique of his own for McCaskill after her defeat. McCaskill’s assertion grew even more dubious this past summer as Cori Bush, another far-left candidate, won in McCaskill’s backyard, unseating longtime St. McCaskill also tried to distance herself from progressives like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders during an interview on Fox News, and ran ads denying her association with “crazy Democrats.” Her bet didn’t pay off, and Hawley cruised to victory, despite being outspent more than 3 to 1.Īfter her defeat, McCaskill continued to aim criticism at the left, expressing bafflement at the newfound celebrity of Ocasio-Cortez, and proclaiming that “free stuff from the government does not play well in the Midwest.”īut as Waleed Shahid of Justice Democrats was quick to point out, that must have been strange news for Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, two candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America who won big in Michigan and Minnesota. Ocasio-Cortez went on to note that while McCaskill lost in 2018, a ballot measure to overturn the state's right to work law passed with a two-thirds majority.ĭuring that race, McCaskill strategically held back her most strident opinions about Donald Trump, for fear of alienating voters in a state that supported the 45th President by nearly 20 points. In the aftermath of Democrats’ down-ballot losses in 2020, McCaskill credited Republicans with scooping up potential Democratic voters turned off by cultural issues, such as the rights of "transsexuals." She faced swift backlash online (McCaskill later apologized, citing fatigue) including from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who asked, "Why do we listen to people who lost elections as if they are experts in winning elections?" Both of these groups proved to be electoral losers, but that didn’t prevent MSNBC from seeking out their opinions on how to win elections. Rather than push for a brighter future, the network has helped create what Jeet Heer of The Nation calls an “ancien régime” resistance: The MSNBC pundits pine for a return to the days of Never Trump Republicans collaborating with McCaskill style Democrats. Since 2016, the ostensible “Fox News for the left” has become home to an increasing number of anti-Trump conservatives and moderate Democrats. So how did Claire McCaskill, an incumbent seeking re-election in a wave year, lose to this obvious fraud? And why is she now a fan favorite among MSNBC’s talking heads? Missouri newspapers and members of Congress are now calling for Hawley to resign or be removed his campaign donors are fleeing or requesting refunds and the image of Hawley flashing his clenched fist to a crowd of conspiracy-addled protesters has come to define January 6th’s riots. His attempts at economic populism have failed to hide his titanic self-centeredness and clear disdain for democracy, and in McCaskill’s words, Hawley has “more ambition than common sense,” a sentiment with which more and more of the Senator’s constituents and peers are in agreement. Since her crushing loss to Hawley in 2018, many of the accusations McCaskill lobbed at her then opponent have proven true, especially Hawley’s raw lust for power. McCaskill told anchor Nicolle Wallace of her previous hesitance to attack a former political opponent, a notion she now sees as “quaint,” before accusing Hawley of compromising not only his integrity, but “the national security of this country.” In the midst of the Capitol Hill riots on January 6th, MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill was asked to comment on Senator Josh Hawley, who defeated her in the 2018 Missouri Senate race, and was then leading efforts to overturn the 2020 Presidential election.
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