What Claire McCaskill's Exit Interview Reveals About the Democratic Party
A recent <em>New York Times</em> interview with the outgoing Missouri senator helps illustrate one of the central dilemmas facing her compatriots.
by Elaine Godfrey
Dec 20, 2018
3 minutes
Claire McCaskill has two words for her progressive critics: “Shut up.”
In a Thursday interview with The New York Times, the outgoing Missouri senator described her frustration—among other grievances—that some of her fellow Democrats saw her as too quiet on the issue of abortion during the confirmation process for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“Really? This is hard,” McCaskill said of running as a Democrat in a red state. “I have been standing in the breach for women’s rights as it relates to reproductive freedom
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